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..."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..."