sprevit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hanc amaverat, ut is huc veniret. is non sprevit nuntium; nam et venit et is in proximo..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...regia dives habet, qui me cum coniuge semper sprevit?' et exponit causas odiique viaeque, quidque velit: quod vellet..."Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...patronus, ipse advocaretur, ne sestertium centies quinquagies sperneret. Sprevit, quod solum potuit tantis opibus publice oblatis arrogantius facere..."