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..."- L
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..."