Debeo (was: Mood names)

Roger Mills scripsit:

> I suspect it may have meant both "ought" and "must/have to"-- but that's
> based on its Romance meanings. Latin experts, speak up.
Thus spake those undoubted Latin experts, Messrs. Lewis & Short
(quotations deleted; original text at
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2312388)


dêbeo   < dehibeo , -ui, -itum, 2, v. a. [de-habeo] , (lit., to have
or keep from some one: hence, to owe (Gr. opheilo^; opp. reddo, solvo, dissolvo,
persolvo, freq. and class.).

      I. Lit., of money and money's worth.

      II. Trop., to owe something, i. e. to be under obligation, both
      to and for something.

            A. To owe, i. e. to be bound or under obligation to render,
            pay, etc., something

                              With inf., to be bound, in duty bound
                              to do something; I ought, must, should,
                              etc., do it (in class. prose always in
                              the sense of moral necessity; in the
                              poets sometimes for necesse est)
                        b. Pass., to be due or owing

                  2. Poet.

                        a. To owe, i. e. to be bound or destined by fate
                        or by nature.  --More usually, pass., to be due
                        i. e. to be destined:

                        b. So, what one is destined by the fates
                        to suffer is regarded as his debt

            B. To owe something to some one, to be indebted to or to
            have to thank one for something.

                              Absol., to be indebted, obliged,
                              under obligation to one

            C. To continue to owe something; i. e. to withhold, keep back:

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