ruebant

ruebant is a Latin form of ruo, meaning “rush, hurry; fall down, collapse; ruin”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 91: … , erant interea qui suis volneribus mederentur; qui, tamquam si offusa rei publicae sempiterna nox esset, ita ruebant in tenebris omniaque miscebant; a quibus miror ne quod iudiciorum esset vestigium non subsellia quoque esse c …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 4.15.3: Ipse ante se falcatos currus habebat: quos signo dato universos in hostem effudit. Ruebant laxatis habenis aurigae, quo plures nondum satis proviso impetu obtererent.

All forms of ruo (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.