spernimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...omnes sub Diomede viros, odium tamen illius omnes spernimus: haud magno stat magna potentia nobis." talibus inritans Venerem..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...revocamina' corvus 'sint, precor, ista malo: nos vanum spernimus omen.' nec coeptum dimittit iter dominoque iacentem cum iuvene..."