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
- M
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..." - L
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..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Peleus incensus fertur amore, tum Thetis humanos non despexit hymenaeos, tum Thetidi pater ipse iugandum Pelea sensit..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."