despexit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...unoesse uiro. Macetum fines latebrasque suorumdeseruit uictasque patri despexit Athenas,perque Asiae populos fatis urguentibus actus 30humana..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quin se exemerit turbae et altius steterit quisquis despexit lacessentis: proprium est magnitudinis uerae non sentire percussum..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Peleus incensus fertur amore, tum Thetis humanos non despexit hymenaeos, tum Thetidi pater ipse iugandum Pelea sensit..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...occuluit tenuitque fugam rapuitque pudorem. Interea medios Iuno despexit in Argos et noctis faciem nebulas fecisse volucres..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...plaustra tenebant. Ut vero summo despexit ab aethere terras infelix Phaethon penitus penitusque iacentes, palluit et subito genua..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...occuluit tenuitque fugam rapuitque pudorem. Interea medios Iuno despexit in Argos et noctis faciem nebulas fecisse volucres..."Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...tenues ventos brachia mota tenent. Territus a summo despexit in aequora caelo: Nox oculis pavido venit oborta metu..."