audebant

audebant is a Latin form of audeo, meaning “dare”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.6.2: Accedebat huc quod in concilio Aeduorum Dumnorix dixerat sibi a Caesare regnum civitatis deferri; quod dictum Aedui graviter ferebant, neque recusandi aut deprecandi causa legatos ad Caesarem mittere audebant.

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.