despectat
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. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nigra ilice obscura nutat silua, quam supra eminens despectat alte quercus et uincit nemus. hinc auspicari regna Tantalidae..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...mutantes quasque Maeotis alluit gentes frigido fluctu quasque despectat uertice e summo sidus Arcadium geminumque plaustrum. Ille dispersos..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...sidera principiumque sui; iamque ardua Cirrhae pollutamque suo despectat Phocida busto. uentum erat ad Thebas; gemuit prope limina..."Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...annus anhelat, alter, et ingenti dives Tirynthius arce despectat fluctus et iunctae tecta novercae provocat et dignis invitat..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...latos acies Volcania campos, ille sedens victor flammas despectat ovantis: non aliter socium virtus coit omnis in unum..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...eminet alte inpositaque premens puppim cervice recurvam caeruleas despectat aquas modicisque per aequor Ionium zephyris sextae Pallantidos ortu..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aquosae fertur et ex alto seductas aethere longe despectat terras totumque supervolat orbem. ter gelidas Arctos, ter Cancri..."