despiciam
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. fut. act. ind. 1stsg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...censu famam trahit. illum ego iure despiciam, qui scit quanto sublimior Atlas omnibus in Libya sit montibus..."de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...inter egentes abice: non ideo tamen me despiciam quod in illorum numero consedero qui manum ad stipem porrigunt..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...uerenda tuosque dilexi monitus. nunc qua feritate dolentis despiciam questus? nescis, pater optime, nescis quantus amor castae misero..."