detrectas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detrecto, detrectare, detrectavi, detrectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
refuse (to undertake/undergo), decline, reject, evade, recoil from;; disparage/belittle, speak/write slightingly of; reduce/depreciate/detract from;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...crudelis est ipsa cunctatio! dum deliberas, dum unumquemque detrectas, parricidium in utroque consumis. duorum vilitate..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...exerces odium, nec iniqua finis in ira est; detrectas etiam laudem fictamque Medusae arguis esse necem. 'dabimus tibi..."