tenebantur

tenebantur is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect passive indicative.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.14.9: omnes enim colles ac loca superiora, unde erat propinquus despectus in mare, ab exercitu tenebantur.

Tacitus, Historiae 4.79: Tenebantur victore exercitu Treviri, cum Civilis et Classicus misere ad Cerialem epistulas, quarum haec sententia fuit: …

All forms of teneo (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.