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sperabat

sperabat is a Latin form of spero, meaning “hope”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.64.7: Nihilo minus clandestinis nuntiis legationibusque Allobrogas sollicitat, quorum mentes nondum ab superiore bello resedisse sperabat.

Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio 56: … ntis iter facere, modo ad urbem, modo in Galliam vorsus castra movere, hostibus occasionem pugnandi non dare. Sperabat propediem magnas copias sese habiturum, si Romae socii incepta patravissent. Interea servitia repudiabat, cui …

All forms of spero (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.