spreveritis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...odor surgitque miserrima pugna parque mihi monstrisque fames. sprevere quod omnes pollueruntque manu quodque unguibus excidit atris..."- P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Lyciae quoque fertilis agris non inpune deam veteres sprevere coloni. res obscura quidem est ignobilitate virorum, mira tamen..."