patebat

patebat is a Latin form of pateo, meaning “lie open, be open; extend”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.8.3: … que idoneo, quod is collis ubi castra posita erant paululum ex planitie editus tantum adversus in latitudinem patebat quantum loci acies instructa occupare poterat, atque ex utraque parte lateris deiectus habebat et in fronte l …

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.8: … t; hinc, si qua maior oppresserat vis, propugnabant; hinc ad repellendum et prosequendum hostem procurrebant. Patebat haec quoquo versus pedes XXX, sed parietum crassitudo pedes V. Postea vero, ut est rerum omnium magister usus …

All forms of pateo (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.