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
- P
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..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...aetas, et iuuenum ritu florent modo nata uigentque. Debemur morti nos nostraque. Siue receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus..."