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dicebam

dicebam is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 2.89: O mea frustra semper verissima auguria rerum futurarum! dicebam illis in Capitolio liberatoribus nostris, cum me ad te ire vellent, ut ad defendendam rem publicam te adhorta …

Ovid, Amores 1.14.1: Dicebam 'medicare tuos desiste capillos!'

All forms of dico (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.