despexeritis
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;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uina bibisset." [21,1] In quosdam specus qui despexere, moriuntur; tam uelox malum est, ut transuolantes aues deiciat..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...amor dulcem aspectum formae suae faceret, saepius ea despexere, in quibus effigies suas uiderant. Postquam deterior populus ipsas..."