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contemptione

Dictionary entries

  • contemptio, contemptionis:

    Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension

    Frequency:
    Common
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = contempt/scorn/destain (act/state); (act) disregard/paying no attention to;

    Entry →
    abl. sg.
    dat. sg.
    loc. sg.

Examples

  • A

    Liber II

    Aulus Gellius

    "...docendo traditur, cum eleganti quadam reprehensionis contemptione positos esse. IX. Quod idem Plutarchus evidenti calumnia verbum ab Epicuro..."
  • L

    ad Helviam

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE

    "...potiorem uideri. His ego respondebo et exilium saepe contemptione omni carere: si magnus uir cecidit, magnus iacuit..."
  • G

    Liber V

    Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO

    "...fuisse capturos, neque Eburones, si ille adesset, tanta contemptione nostri ad castra venturos esse. Non hostem auctorem..."
  • G

    Liber II

    Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI

    "...gravius permoti milites et defectionis odio et contemptione sui et diutino labore omnes puberes interficerent; quod se facturos..."

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