detrectes
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. subj. 2nd
Examples
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...ignavis gloriari licet, adversae res etiam bonos detrectant. Metellus in isdem castris quatriduo moratus saucios cum cura reficit..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...hodie reperies, qui Ciceronis gloriam quam qui Virgilii detrectent: nec ullus Asinii aut Messallae liber tam inlustris..."