iacebant

iacebant is a Latin form of iaceo, meaning “lie, lie down”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.118: patres hi quos videtis iacebant in limine, matresque miserae pernoctabant ad ostium carceris ab extremo conspectu liberum exclusae; quae nihi …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 3.13.10: Praefectus, quasi esset ipse conterritus, simulans cuncta pavore conpleverat. Iacebant totis campis opes regiae, illa pecunia stipendio ingenti militum praeparata, ille cultus tot nobilium virorum, tot inlustrium feminarum,

All forms of iaceo (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.