despuas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despuo, despuere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spit (out/down/upon), spurn/reject, abhor; spit on ground (avert evil/disease);
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...volo, teque obsecro hercle ut quae locutu's despuas. DEM. Fiat, geratur mos tibi. LIB. Age, age usque..."Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...sumpse mutuum, extemplo illo te ducam, ubi non despuas. Claudius Quadrigarius in primo annali: "Ea Lucani ubi resciverunt..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...nunc audax cave sis, precesque nostras, oramus, cave despuas, ocelle, ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te. est vehemens..."