valebat

valebat is a Latin form of valeo, meaning “be strong, be well; have power”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.51.1: … ctu hostium pro castris minoribus constituit, quod minus multitudine militum legionariorum pro hostium numero valebat, ut ad speciem alariis uteretur; ipse triplici instructa acie usque ad castra hostium accessit.

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 80.1: … strigilis usu plurifariam concretis ad impetiginis formam. coxendice et femore et crure sinistro non perinde ualebat, ut saepe etiam inclaudicaret; sed remedio harenarum atque harundinum confirmabatur. dextrae quoque manus dig …

All forms of valeo (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.