petebant

petebant is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 88 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.24.1: Eodem tempore equites nostri levisque armaturae pedites, qui cum iis una fuerant, quos primo hostium impetu pulsos dixeram, cum se in castra reciperent, adversis hostibus occurrebant ac rursus aliam in partem fugam petebant;

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.9.10: Petebant ibi omnes ut vel unum statim diceret. Sed cum homo voltum intorqueret et non hisceret et colores mutaretmnutaret, tum ego intercessi et Vade, inquam, nunc et habeto ad requirendum triginta dies; postquam inveneris, repetes nos.

All forms of peto (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.