Usually Latin past participles are passive, but loquor is a deponent verb which has only passive forms with an active meaning, so locutus means "spoken" as in "

Usually Latin past participles are passive, but loquor is a deponent verb which has only passive forms with an active meaning, so locutus means "spoken" as in "I have spoken" rather than "the words have been spoken". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deponent_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deponent_verb