viderant

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

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.12.5: Celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis, aggere iacto turribusque constitutis, magnitudine operum, quae neque viderant ante Galli neque audierant, et celeritate Romanorum permoti legatos ad Caesarem de deditione mittunt et petentibus Remis ut conservarentur impetrant.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.27.9: … es erigerent. id factum magnae parti peditum Romanorum conspectum abeuntis Albani exercitus intersaepsit; qui uiderant, id quod ab rege auditum erat rati, eo acrius pugnant. terror ad hostes transit; et audiuerant clara uoce dic …

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.