verebar

verebar is a Latin form of vereor, meaning “fear; respect”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect passive indicative.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.136: … editatem non minus esse isti amicam quam Mamertinam propter praedarum ac furtorum omnium societatem; simul et verebar ne mulierum nobilium et formosarum gratia, quarum iste arbitrio praeturam per triennium gesserat, virorumque …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 4.9.7: Hic ego quid agerem, quod iter defensionis ingrederer? Negarem? Verebar ne plane furtum videretur, quod confiteri timerem. Praeterea rem manifestam infitiari augentis erat crimen no …

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.1.2: … habuit quod daret pro patre praeter se. Poteram in Cynegiri domo sperare nuptias, poteram in Callimachi, nec uerebar ne Cynegirus suas pluris aestimaret manus.

All forms of vereor (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.