despexissent
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...adrogantioris, qui, subito fronte conficta inmissaque barba, veluti despexissent oratoria praecepta paulum aliquid sederunt in scholis philosophorum..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...cara mihi. satis o nimiumque priores despexisse procos. at enim hic tibi sanguine toto deditus unam omnes inter..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...antea dixi in eo loco commoratus, ut quasi despexisse Caesarem videretur, paulatim reducit suas copias in castra..."