insperatam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →insperatus, insperata, insperatum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
unhoped for, unexpected, unforeseen;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...occupare neque praeripere postulo. MESS. Di immortales, spem insperatam date mihi quam suspicor. nam nisi me animus fallit..."Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...ostentam, tantam, tam brevem, tam optatam, tam insperatam amitterem? tum pol ego is essem vero qui simulabar..."