solebat

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

Found 310 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.15.1: Alterum genus est equitum. Hi, cum est usus atque aliquod bellum incidit (quod fere ante Caesaris adventum quotannis accidere solebat, uti aut ipsi iniurias inferrent aut illatas propulsarent), omnes in bello versantur,

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 8.72.8: Solebat Attalus hac imagine uti: vidisti aliquando canem missa a domino frusta panis aut carnis aperto ore captantem? …

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.