solebant

solebant is a Latin form of soleo, meaning “be accustomed”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 80 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.59: … quidem viderent in foro populi Romani, quo in loco antea qui sociis iniurias fecerant accusari et condemnari solebant, ibi esse palam posita ea quae ab sociis per scelus ablata ereptaque essent.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.5.6: Iterum ego: 'Solebant testes in reos, non in damnatos interrogari.' Tertio ille: 'Non iam quid de Modesto, sed quid de pietate Modesti sentias quaero.

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.