dicebant

dicebant is a Latin form of dico, meaning “say, speak, tell; call”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 123 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.39.1: … atione in armis esse praedicabant (saepe numero sese cum his congressos ne vultum quidem atque aciem oculorum dicebant ferre potuisse), tantus subito timor omnem exercitum occupavit ut non mediocriter omnium mentes animosque per …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 6.58.4: Dicebant antiqui si iusso, id est iussero. Hoc nolo mihi credas, sed eidem Vergilio: Cetera, qua iusso, mecum manus inferat arma.

All forms of dico (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.