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desperaret

Dictionary entries

  • despero, desperare, desperavi, desperatus:

    Verb · 1st conjugation

    Frequency:
    Frequent
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = despair (of); have no/give up hope (of/that); give up as hopeless (of cure);

    Entry →
    sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd

Examples

  • C

    Themistocles

    Cornelius Nepos

    "...regi de Graecia opprimenda pollicitus esset, praestare posse desperaret. Idem ossa eius clam in Attica ab amicis sepulta..."
  • L

    Liber V

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM

    "...nondum esse se crederet, fortasse etiam fieri posse desperaret. 'At male existimat de malis.' Hoc etiam mali faciunt..."
  • M

    I

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES

    "...nullo revertar." Vota sunt ista, sed oculorum; caecus desperaret, etiamsi tam multa nox polliceretur. Hoc loco quaeram necesse..."

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