INDEBTED Copy link • INDEBTEDto be indebted to anybody for anything, aliquid alicui debere (general term, to be his debtor for it): aliquid alicui acceptum referre (i. e., to set it down, as it were, in one’s account-books as received from him, whether good or evil = “to have to thank him for”): alicujus beneficio aliquem or aliquid esse (to owe one’s present happy, etc., state to anybody’s kindness). To be indebted to anybody for one’s life, vitam suam alicui referre acceptam (Cic., Phil., 2, 5); alicui vitam debere (Ov., Pont., 4, 3, 31); propter aliquem vivere (Cic., Mil., 22, 58 = to have to thank him for having saved one’s life); ab aliquo natum esse; propter aliquem hanc suavissimam lucem aspexisse (to owe one’s being to anybody as its author; of parents, etc.). To be indebted to anybody for one’s preservation, life, etc., alicujus beneficio incolumem, salvum esse: to be indebted to anybody for the preservation of one’s rank, property, position, etc., alicujus beneficio incolumes fortunas habere: to be indebted to anybody for many kind acts, alicui multa beneficia debere: to feel indebted [= obliged] to anybody for anything, aliquid (e.g., munus alicujus) gratum acceptumque est, etc. [Vid: OBLIGED.] = To be in debt; Vid: DEBT or OWE.