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despiciunt

Dictionary entries

  • 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;

    Entry →
    pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd

Examples

  • M

    Liber II

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...iudicialisque materias (nam cetera ut professione sua minora despiciunt), et hi non satis credunt excepisse quae relicta erant..."
  • G

    BELLUM IUGURTHINUM

    Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)

    "...liberos quam optimos voluisse? "Quod si iure me despiciunt, faciant item maioribus suis, quibus, uti mihi, ex virtute..."

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