continebat

continebat is a Latin form of contineo, meaning “hold together, contain; restrain”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.15.2: … udacius subsistere non numquam et novissimo agmine proelio nostros lacessere coeperunt. Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere.

All forms of contineo (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.