favebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →faveo, favere, favi, fautus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
favor (w/DAT), befriend, support, back up;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...hostili foculo destillantem perspectavit, donec Porsina cuius poenae favebat gloriae invidit et ignem invito eripi iussit. Hoc bonum..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...Ceterum iuventus pleraque, sed maxume nobilium, Catilinae inceptis favebat; quibus in otio vel magnifice vel molliter vivere copia..."