despicitur
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. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...aliter dicit, pro rudi atque indocto despicitur. Sed Marci Tullii aetas ac supra eam non, opinor, ita dixerunt..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Minoe meo, qui propter amara senectae pondera despicitur, nec quo prius ordine regnat.' Dicta Iovis movere deos..."