v. despicere: despicatui habere (to look down upon; not to value, opposed to suspicere, revereri, admirari): contemnere: contemptui habere (to despise what one might be expected to fear; opposed to metuere, timere; e.g., mortem, pericula; but also auctoritates, consilium, Vid :.): spernere (to despise or hold cheap what one might be expected to desire; to reject with scorn; opposed to appetere, concupiscere; but also of holding a person cheap): aspernari (to reject with aversion; to utter the feeling implied in spernere): (The words are found in this connection and order.) contemnere ac despicere; despicere et contemnere; contemnere et pro nihilo ducere; despicere et pro nihilo putare; spernere et pro nihilo putare; spernere et repudiare: fastidire (to feel disgust against anything; to reject it from pride, etc): negligere (to disregard). (The words are found in this connection and order.) contemnere ac negligere: cf., temnere is poetical for contemnere; despicari, late and rare. Nobody despises himself, nemo umquam sui despiciens fuit: the consciousness of having despised the gods, spretorum deorum conscientia :to despise glory, gloriam repudiare or spernere; anybody’s favor, gratiam alicujus repudiare.