spernebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quos ut parum celebres et tantae voci angustos spernebat. non tamen Romae incipere ausus Neapolim quasi Graecam urbem..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...suum crimen accipiebant. Superior exercitus legatum Hordeonium Flaccum spernebat, senecta ac debilitate pedum invalidum, sine constantia, sine auctoritate..."