volebant

volebant is a Latin form of volo, meaning “want, wish, be willing”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 72 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.39.6: Qui se ex his minus timidos existimari volebant, non se hostem vereri, sed angustias itineris et magnitudinem silvarum quae intercederent inter ipsos atque Ariovistum, aut rem frumentariam, ut satis commode supportari posset, timere dicebant.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.17.2: oriundi ab Sabinis, ne quia post Tati mortem ab sua parte non erat regnatum, in societate aequa possessionem imperii amitterent, sui corporis creari regem uolebant: Romani ueteres peregrinum regem aspernabantur.

All forms of volo (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.