videbat

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

Found 155 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.33.2: … imis quod Haeduos, fratres consanguineosque saepe numero a senatu appellatos, in servitute atque [in] dicione videbat Germanorum teneri eorumque obsides esse apud Ariovistum ac Sequanos intellegebat; quod in tanto imperio popul …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 35.1: … ugientem Alexandriam persecutus, ut occisum deprehendit, cum Ptolemaeo rege, a quo sibi quoque insidias tendi uidebat, bellum sane difficillimum gessit, neque loco neque tempore aequo, sed hieme anni et intra moenia copiosissim …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 8.2.2: Videbat tunc inmodice libertate abusum, sed alioqui egregium bello virum et, nisi erubesceret fateri, servatorem sui occisum. Detestabile carnificis ministerium occupaverat rex, verborum licentiam, quae vino poterat inputari, nefanda caede ultus.

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.