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agebat

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

Found 156 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.30: … cam profugit. Cato in Sicilia naves longas veteres reficiebat, novas civitatibus imperabat. Haec magno studio agebat. In Lucanis Bruttiisque per legatos suos civium Romanorum delectus habebat, equitum peditumque certum numerum …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 15.94.62: Agebat infelicem Alexandrum furor aliena vastandi et ad ignota mittebat. An tu putas sanum, qui a Graeciae primum cl …

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.