tuebantur

tuebantur is a Latin form of tueor, meaning “look at, watch; protect”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect passive indicative.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.12.8: Hos illi diligenter tuebantur: ita et novam et repente collectam auctoritatem tenebant.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.6.8: Tuebantur autem hanc civitatem legiones duae (prima Flavia primaque Parthica), et indigenae plures cum auxilio equitum, illic ob repentinum malum clausorum, qui omnes (ut dixi) vinctis manibus ducebantur, nullo iuvante nostrorum.

All forms of tueor (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.