debebant

debebant is a Latin form of debeo, meaning “owe; ought, must”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 51: … cum apud maiores nostros summi viri clarissimique homines qui omni tempore ad gubernacula rei publicae sedere debebant tamen in agris quoque colendis aliquantum operae temporisque consumpserint, ignosci oportere ei homini qui se …

All forms of debeo (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.