sprevisset
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...Argivaque bella morari; fac velit: ipsam illic matrem sprevisset Achilles. nec tamen abnuerit genero se iungere tali: vincitur..."Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...visere, quis ille tot per annos opes nostras sprevisset. ne Romae quidem ignobile Carataci nomen erat; et Caesar..."