despectarent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despecto, despectare, despectavi, despectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
look over/down at, survey; overlook; rise above, overtop; despise/look down on;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...mediis urbis tibi templa dicabo collibus, Ionias qua despectare procellas dulce sit, et flauo tollens ubi uertice pontum..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...terras ordine longo aut capere, aut captas iam despectare videntur: ut reduces illi ludunt stridentibus alis, et coetu..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...insistere Atlantis palantesque homines passim et rationis egentes despectare procul trepidosque obitumque timentes sic exhortari seriemque evolvere fati..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Tiberio concedere, liberos eius ut multum infra despectare. nec dubium habebat se delectum qui Syriae imponeretur ad spes..."