despectarer
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;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
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..."- P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."