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dicebas

dicebas is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 2nd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 1.7: … a rem publicam non potuisse, cum tu discessu ceterorum nostra tamen qui remansissemus caede contentum te esse dicebas?

Catullus, Carmina elegies.72.1: Dicebas quondam solum te nosse Catullum,

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.