valebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →valeo, valere, valui, valitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
be strong/powerful/influential/healthy; prevail; [vale => goodbye/farewell];; farewell, goodbye, adieu (the Roman equivalent of "Live long and prosper");
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...crimine; partim semianimes errare viis, dum stare valebant, adspiceres, flentes alios terraque iacentes lassaque versantes supremo lumina motu..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...cognito Sotiates magnis copiis coactis, equitatuque, quo plurimum valebant, in itinere agmen nostrum adorti primum equestre proelium commiserunt..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...tunc ordinum diversa studia, et quae vicerant publice valebant. C. Oppius et Cornelius Balbus primi Caesaris opibus potuere..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...praetendebantur; tribuni centurionesque ambigui quod spretis melioribus deterrimi valebant; miles alacer, qui tamen iussa ducum interpretari quam exequi..."