contemptione
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contemptio, contemptionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
contempt/scorn/destain (act/state); (act) disregard/paying no attention to;
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...docendo traditur, cum eleganti quadam reprehensionis contemptione positos esse. IX. Quod idem Plutarchus evidenti calumnia verbum ab Epicuro..."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..."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..."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..."