spernet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...dictauit, docte Catulle, tibi: non me Paeligni nec spernet Mantua uatem, si qua Corinna mihi, si quis Alexis..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...regat ex parte dominus. Si nimis durus preces spernet Thyestes, liberos eius rudes malisque fessos grauibus et faciles..."