indebted Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. • indebted: I. Lit.: owing money: ŏbaerātus (encumbered with debt): Caes. B. G. 1, 4: Liv.: Suet. Phr.: to be i. to any one for a sum of money, pecuniam alicui debere (v. to owe); pecuniam alicui acceptam retulisse (lit. to have entered it to any one's credit as received), Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 70, 170: cf. id. Ph. 2, 16, 40, amplius H. S. ducenties acceptum hereditatibus retuli. See also debt. II. Fig.: under obligation: obnoxius: v. beholden. Phr.: to acknowledge oneself to be i. to another for life, alicui vitam suam referre acceptam, Cic. Ph. 2, 5, extr. (v. supr. I.): to be very greatly i. to any one, plurimum alicui debere, Caes. B. G. 5, 27: to be i. to any one for safety, beneficio alicujus salvum esse, Cic. Fam. 11, 22: Caes. B. G. 1, 53, extr.