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