spernebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...miscere. Nusquam benigne legatio audita est: adeo simul spernebant, simul tantam in medio crescentem molem sibi ac posteris..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...expertes summa collium insederant et paucitatem nostrorum vacui spernebant, degredi paulatim et circumire terga vincentium coeperant..."