agebantur

agebantur is a Latin form of ago, meaning “drive, do, act; discuss”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect passive indicative.

Found 49 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.17.9: ac nihilo setius sublicae et ad inferiorem partem fluminis oblique agebantur, quae pro ariete subiectae et cum omni opere coniunctae vim fluminis exciperent,

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 3.11.17: cum ingens multitudo hostium cederet: sed quis aut in victoria aut in fuga copias numerat? Agebantur ergo a tam paucis pecorum modo, et idem metus, qui cogebat fugere, fugientes morabatur.

All forms of ago (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.