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
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...aliter dicit, pro rudi atque indocto despicitur. Sed Marci Tullii aetas ac supra eam non, opinor, ita dixerunt..."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..."