debemur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →debeo, debere, debui, debitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
owe; be indebted/responsible for/obliged/bound/destined; ought, must, should;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...silentia regni, Eurydices, oro, properata retexite fata. omnia debemur vobis, paulumque morati serius aut citius sedem properamus..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...aetas, et iuuenum ritu florent modo nata uigentque. Debemur morti nos nostraque. Siue receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus..."