spernebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Pupiniensi ad famam intentus hostium consedit. Nec Romae spernebatur Umbrorum bellum; et ipsae minae metum fecerant expertis Gallica..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...sola reliqua esset, arbitrio eius permittens. ac postquam spernebatur, noctem unam ad solacium poscit, qua delenitus modum..."