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eram

eram is a Latin form of sum, meaning “be, exist; (as auxiliary) is, are, was”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 354 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.137: itaque Syracusis cum civibus Romanis eram, eorum tabulas exquirebam, iniurias cognoscebam. cum diutius in negotio curaque fueram, ut requiescerem curam …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 5.14.8: Eram cum prosocero meo, eram cum amita uxoris, eram cum amicis diu desideratis, circumibam agellos, audiebam multu …

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.2.1040: sed erám meam, quae te démoritur.

All forms of sum (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.