dicebantur

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

Found 67 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.3.3: prope iam desperata salute non nullae eius modi sententiae dicebantur, ut impedimentis relictis eruptione facta isdem itineribus quibus eo pervenissent ad salutem contenderent.

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.