gerebantur

gerebantur is a Latin form of gero, meaning “carry, bear; do, carry on”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect passive indicative.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.35.1: Haec in omnibus Eburonum partibus gerebantur, diesque appetebat septimus, quem ad diem Caesar ad impedimenta legionemque reverti constituerat.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.12.6: Gerebantur haec in ea parte Sarmatiae, quae secundam prospectat Pannoniam, parique fortitudine circa Valeriam opes barbaras urendo rapiendoque occurrentia militaris turbo vastabat.

All forms of gero (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.