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agebant

agebant is a Latin form of ago, meaning “drive, do, act; discuss”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.17.2: De re frumentaria Boios atque Aeduos adhortari non destitit; quorum alteri, quod nullo studio agebant, non multum adiuvabant, alteri non magnis facultatibus, quod civitas erat exigua et infirma, celeriter quod habuerunt consumpserunt.

Seneca the Younger, De Tranquillitate Animi 14.5: … et ostendere quanta crudelitas esset, in qua mors beneficium erat? An exprobrauit illi cotidianam dementiam? Agebant enim gratias et quorum liberi occisi et quorum bona ablata erant. An tamquam libertatem libenter accepit? Qui …

All forms of ago (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.