vidissent

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

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.24.2: et calones, qui ab decumana porta ac summo iugo collis nostros victores flumen transire conspexerant, praedandi causa egressi, cum respexissent et hostes in nostris castris versari vidissent, praecipites fugae sese mandabant.

Martial, Epigrammata 9.65.6: Vidissent gentes saevaque regna pati,

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.9: iam Sabinorum omnis multitudo cum liberis ac coniugibus uenit. inuitati hospitaliter per domos cum situm moeniaque et frequentem tectis urbem uidissent, mirantur tam breui rem Romanam creuisse.

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.