placuerat

placuerat is a Latin form of placeo, meaning “please, be agreeable (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active indicative.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.31: … icendo, aliud per servos, aliud per liberos, per amicum aliud, aliud per inimicum inveniebant; quicquid illis placuerat, perdendum erat. nihil aliud optabant quorum poscebatur argentum nisi ut id Hieroni et Tlepolemo displiceret.

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.14: … habituri mihi. Convocatis denique gravioribus amicis consilium datur, quo potissimum pacto digne remunerarer. Placuerat uni domi me conclusum et otiosum hordeo lecto fabaque et vicia saginari: sed obtinuit alius qui meae libertat …

All forms of placeo (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.