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
- L
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..." - L
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..."- P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."