hebes

hebes is a Latin form of hebeo, meaning “be blunt; be sluggish/inactive; grow dim/faint, die down”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.50: … o enim tibi nemo dabit, quod expetendum sit, id esse laudabile. Illud vero minime consectarium, sed in primis hebes, illorum scilicet, non tuum, gloriatione dignam esse beatam vitam, quod non possit sine honestate contingere, …

Cicero, On Oratory 2.133: … dicendum magno opere pertineat, sed tamen ut videatis, quale sit genus hoc eorum, qui sibi eruditi videntur. Hebes atque impolitum: constituunt enim in partiendis orationum modis duo genera causarum: unum appellant, in quo s …

All forms of hebeo (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.