spreverit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 3rdsg. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...alienus adfinem volet, tacebit dum intercedet familiaritas; sin spreverit me, plus quam opus est scito sciet. vereorque..."
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...penetrarit Iason exulibus meque ante alios sic spreverit una, una ratis, spolium ut vivo de rege reportet? ipsum..."