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
- T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...volo, teque obsecro hercle ut quae locutu's despuas. DEM. Fiat, geratur mos tibi. LIB. Age, age usque..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...sumpse mutuum, extemplo illo te ducam, ubi non despuas. Claudius Quadrigarius in primo annali: "Ea Lucani ubi resciverunt..." - G
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..."