owing
owing, to be:
I. Lit.: pass. of dēbeo, 2: money which is o. me from an exchange, pecunia quae mihi ex permutatione debetur, Cic. Fam. 3, 5, 2: v.TO OWE . Phr.: balance of accounts o., reliqua, orum: id. Att. 16, 3.
II. Fig., to be due to any one's instrumentality: Phr.: it was o. to the generals, not the men, that they were not victorious, per duces, non per milites stetisse ne vincerent, Liv. 3, 61, init.: also, per (me) stetit quominus ..., Ter. Andr. 4, 2, 16 (an idiom confined to negative consequences): it is o. to you we have conquered, *tibi victoriam ascribimus, acceptam referimus; quod vicimus, tuum est.
I. Lit.: pass. of dēbeo, 2: money which is o. me from an exchange, pecunia quae mihi ex permutatione debetur, Cic. Fam. 3, 5, 2: v.
II. Fig., to be due to any one's instrumentality: Phr.: it was o. to the generals, not the men, that they were not victorious, per duces, non per milites stetisse ne vincerent, Liv. 3, 61, init.: also, per (me) stetit quominus ..., Ter. Andr. 4, 2, 16 (an idiom confined to negative consequences): it is o. to you we have conquered, *tibi victoriam ascribimus, acceptam referimus; quod vicimus, tuum est.