The corpus record — Latin

despecto

to look down upon

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Where it lives

Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēspecto — Lewis & Short

dēspecto, āre,

I v. intens. a. [id.], to look down upon any thing from a height (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Prop.: ex alto terras, Ov. M. 4, 624; so, terras, Verg. A. 1, 396: humum, Ov. M. 2, 710: aquas, id. ib. 15, 699: flammas, Verg. A. 10, 409: procul palantes animos, Ov. M. 15, 151 al.—

B Of a high place, to overlook or command: et quos maliferae despectant moenia Abellae, Verg. A. 7, 740; cf.: spectacula Tarpeium prope despectantia culmen, Calp. Ecl. 7, 24 (but in Liv. 36, 25, 3, the true reading is spectat).—

II Trop., to look down upon, to despise (used by Tac.): liberos infra, Tac. A. 2, 43: ne ut victi et ignavi despectarentur, id. H. 2, 30.

Where it came from

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