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poscebat

poscebat is a Latin form of posco, meaning “demand, ask for”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.44: neque enim ullam aliam ob causam populus Romanus tribuniciam potestatem tanto studio requisivit; quam cum poscebat, verbo illam poscere videbatur, re vera iudicia poscebat. neque hoc Q. Catulum, hominem sapientissimum atque …

All forms of posco (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.