despexerat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despicio, despicere, despexi, despectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
look down on/over; relax attention; disdain, despise; express contempt for;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...oppida matres spem generis, nec plura tuus despexerat Oeneus foedera Pisaeisque socer metuendus habenis. sed mihi nec Sparta..."Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...tristem sustinuit notam.Tum quidam ex illis quos prius despexerat'Contentus nostris si fuisses sedibuset quod Natura dederat voluisses..."