petebat

petebat is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.39.3: quorum alius alia causa inlata, quam sibi ad proficiscendum necessariam esse diceret, petebat ut eius voluntate discedere liceret; non nulli pudore adducti, ut timoris suspicionem vitarent, remanebant.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.5.1: Isdem ferme diebus Darei litterae adlatae sunt tandem ut regi scriptae. Petebat, uti filiam suam — Statirae erat nomen — nuptiis Alexander sibi adiungeret: dotem fore omnem regionem inter H …

All forms of peto (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.