spretam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fuisse cordi tam superbe ab Romanis foederis expiationem spretam. Quid enim ultra fieri ad placandos deos mitigandosque homines..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Niger aedilis simul corripiunt obiectantque violatum Augusti numen, spretam Tiberii maiestatem, Mamercus antiqua exempla iaciens, L. Cottam..."