credebant

credebant is a Latin form of credo, meaning “believe, trust; entrust (+dat.)”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 84 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.8.6: Celeriter nostri clamore sublato pila in hostes immittunt. Illi, ubi praeter spem quos fugere credebant infestis signis ad se ire viderunt, impetum modo ferre non potuerunt ac primo concursu in fugam coniecti proximas silvas petierunt.

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 10.10.15: Credebant etiam Craterum cum veterum militum manu ad interficiendum eum missum.

All forms of credo (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.