desperaveris
Dictionary entries
- Entry →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);
sg. futperf. act. ind. 2ndsg. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...alterum alteri misce:nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe. Quid per se peregrinatio prodesse cuiquam potuit..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nescio: malo successum mihi quam fidem deesse. Nec desperaveris etiam diutinos aegros posse sanari, si contra intemperantiam steteris..."