• OUGHT

1. v. debeo: oportet (oportet denoting the moral duty; debeo the individual’s obligation to perform it): participle in dus. Sometimes decet (it is becoming), aequum est (it is fair). ☞ “I ought to do it” is facere debeo or me facere oportet: I ought to have done it, facere debebam or debui; or me facere oportebat or oportuit: and ☞ that the indicative is used, even when a conditional sentence is added with verb in imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive; e.g., omnibus cum contumeliis onerasti, quem patris loco, si ulla in te pietas esset, colere debebas (Sall., Jug., 85): so if participle in dus is used; e.g., quodsi Gnaeus Pompeius privatus esset, hoc tempore tamen erat mittendus (Zumpt, 519).

2. = Any thing, aliquid; res quaepiam; quidpiam.