videbant

videbant is a Latin form of video, meaning “see; (passive) seem”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 64 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.12.7: meliore condicione atque aequiore imperio se uti videbant, reliquis rebus eorum gratia dignitateque amplificata Sequani principatum dimiserant. In eorum locum Remi suc …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.52.4: haud difficulter persuasum Latinis, quamquam in eo foedere superior Romana res erat; ceterum et capita nominis Latini stare ac sentire cum rege uidebant, et [Turnus] sui cuique periculi, si aduersatus esset, recens erat documentum.

Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 12: … ius CX navibus longis in portu navalibusque amiserant, non tamen reparandae classis cogitationem deposuerunt. Videbant enim non auxilia Caesari, non commeatus supportari posse, si classe ipsi valerent; praeterea nautici homines …

All forms of video (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.