videbantur

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

Found 222 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.18.3: Intra eas silvas hostes in occulto sese continebant; in aperto loco secundum flumen paucae stationes equitum videbantur. Fluminis erat altitudo pedum circiter trium.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.17.7: fremere deinde plebs multiplicatam seruitutem, centum pro uno dominos factos; nec ultra nisi regem et ab ipsis creatum uidebantur passuri.

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.16.2: Videbantur haec nequaquam convenire: tua postuma proles, et: Quem tibi longaevo serum Lavinia coniunx Educet silvis.

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.