quaerebant

quaerebant is a Latin form of quaero, meaning “seek, ask; inquire”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.74: … principibus Hispaniae, quos evocaverant et secum in castris habebant obsidum loco. Hi suos notos hospitesque quaerebant, per quem quisque eorum aditum commendationis haberet ad Caesarem. Afranii etiam filius adulescens de sua ac …

Ovid, Heroides 3.12: Quaerebant taciti, noster ubi esset amor.

All forms of quaero (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.