sustinebat

sustinebat is a Latin form of sustineo, meaning “hold up, endure; delay”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 10.12.3: … acuit nobis ut statim ad Cornutum, pr. urb., litteras deferremus, qui, quod consules aberant, consulare munus sustinebat more maiorum. senatus est continuo convocatus frequensque convenit propter famam atque exspectationem tuarum …

All forms of sustineo (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.