despondet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despondeo, despondere, despepondi, desponsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Inscription
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
betroth, promise (woman) in marriage; pledge, promise; despair/yield/give up;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...mentitur ista praeferens fraudi deos uates, tibique sceptra despondet mea. Cr. Egone ut sororem regia expelli uelim..." 
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...terrore relinquas.' audiit atque simul meritis periuria poenis despondet questus semper Furor ultus amantis. Haec ubi dicta, tamen..."- P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...decimo successerat annus: cum pater, Iphi, tibi flavam despondet Ianthen, inter Phaestiadas quae laudatissima formae dote fuit virgo..."