contempsimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contemno, contemnere, contempsi, contemptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
think little of; look down on, take poor view of; pay no heed/disregard/slight;; treat with/hold in contempt, scorn, disdain; despise; keep away from, avoid;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...timidum, animose paupertatem ferentem, humiliter infamiam: factum laudauimus, contempsimus uirum. (10) Alium uidimus aduersus amicosbenignum, aduersus inimicos temperatum..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...bona fide sumus, si receptui cecinimus, si speciosa contempsimus, ut paulo ante dicebam, nulla res nos avocabit, nullus..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...omnes mihi videbantur satureum bibisse <. . .> iunctis viribus molestum contempsimus. <. . .> [IX] Quasi per caliginem vidi Gitona in crepidine semitae..."XVI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...exemplum. inde est, quod et pariter ~reverti~ contempsimus, et, quasi facilius esset ~inter fides~ placuit sub incerta pelagi..."