I saw, I embraced, I loved

[Tlepolemus]

It's too bad that the only two verbs (that I can think of) for "embrace" are both deponent.

ThLL says that both words "amplecti" and "complecti" had active forms in Archaic Latin:

So, "vidi amplectavi adamavi" can be understood as some kind of stylization.

 

[Pacifica]

Amplector isn't first conjugation, though.

 

[Deleted member 13757]

I am more interested in a perfect amavi to honest.

 

[Tlepolemus]

Amplector isn't first conjugation, though.

Then it could be amplexi or amplexui.

P.S. The cognate word "plĕcto" (interweave) was an active verb in Classic time.

 

[Pacifica]

The former seems more likely, but the best would be to have an actual attestation of that form.

 

[Callaina]

ThLL says that both words "amplecti" and "complecti" had active forms in Archaic Latin:
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So, "vidi amplectavi adamavi" can be understood as some kind of stylization.

But that's cheating