iacebat

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

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.63: … Megaridem, qui locus est non longe a Syracusis. quod ubi isti nuntiatum est, tametsi in acta cum mulierculis iacebat ebrius, erexit se tamen et statim quaestori legatoque suo custodes misit compluris, ut omnia sibi integra qua …

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.1.6: Iacebat in littore nauigium, quod etiam integrum infeliciter uexerat. Credam parricidam, si tibi proficiscenti nauigi …

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.