audebat

audebat is a Latin form of audeo, meaning “dare”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.42.6: … aesar, quod neque conloquium interposita causa tolli volebat neque salutem suam Gallorum equitatui committere audebat, commodissimum esse statuit omnibus equis Gallis equitibus detractis eo legionarios milites legionis X., cui …

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.