licebat

licebat is a Latin form of licet, meaning “it is allowed; (conj.) although”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 93 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.41.4: Eodem tempore cuniculos tectos ab vineis agunt ad caput fontis; quod genus operis sine ullo periculo, sine suspicione hostium facere licebat.

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.