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1. 경멸하다, 업신여기다, 깔보다, 비웃다

1. I scorn, despise

예문

• nonne odio multos dignos putamus, qui quodam motu aut statu videntur naturae legem et modum contempsisse? (M. Tullius Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, LIBER QUINTUS 64:5)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 최선과 최악에 관하여, 64:5)

• patere, obsecro, te pro re publica videri gessisse simultatem cum patre eius, non contempsisse hanc familiam. (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus, LIBER QVARTVS DECIMVS AD ATTICVM, letter 13A 5:1)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 아티쿠스에게 보낸 편지들, , 5:1)

• Atque ut plane genus hoc, quod ego laudo, contempsisse videantur, aut scribant aliquid vel Isocrateo more vel quo Aeschines aut Demo- sthenes utitur, tum illos existimabo non desperatione reformi- davisse genus hoc, sed iudicio refugisse; (M. Tullius Cicero, ORATOR AD M. BRVTVM, chapter 71 1:2)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, , 71장 1:2)

• Meo quidem iudicio neuter culpandus, quorum uterque ad gloriam pari cupiditate, diverso itinere contendit, alter dum expetit debitos titulos, alter dum mavult videri contempsisse. (Pliny the Younger, Letters, book 9, letter 19 8:1)

  (소 플리니우스, 편지들, 9권, 8:1)

• Facilius autem exhortabor, si ostendero non fortes tantum viros hoc momentum efflandae animae contempsisse, sed quosdam ad alia ignavos in hac re aequasse animum fortissimorum, sicut illum Cn. (Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, book 3, letter 24 9:2)

  (세네카, , , 9:2)

유의어 사전

1. Spernimus rejicienda, fugienda ut libidines. Contemnimus magna, metuenda ut pericula, mortem. Despicimus infra nos posita, ut vulgi opiniones; according to Lambinus. Or, spernere, spernari, aspernari (ἐκπέραίνειν) mean, not to care for a thing, in opp. to appetere, concupisse, Cic. Fin. ii. 10, 51. Plaut. Mil. iv. 2, 59, something like ἀποβάλλειν; whereas contemnere, poetically temnere (from temere), not to fear a thing, in opp. to timere, metuere, Cic. Fam. vii. 32. Att. ii. 24. Sen. Prov. 6. Tac. H. ii. 92, like καταφρονεῖν; lastly, despicere, despectare, not to value a thing, in opp. to suspicere, revereri, admirari. Cic. Off. ii. 11, 38. Tac. Ann. ii. 43, like ὀλιγωρεῖν. 2. Spernere denotes despising, as an inward feeling, synonymously with parvi putare, negligere; spernari, and the more usual word, aspernari, as an utterance of that feeling, synonymously with recusare, abnuere, rejicere, like waving from one. In spernere, the notion of holding cheap predominates; in aspernari, that of aversion or rejection. Spernere refers to an object which is at one’s command; aspernari, to something offered to us, or obtruded upon us. 3. Aspernari is confined to the simple avowal of aversion; whereas recusare includes the decided declaration of unwillingness. Curt. vi. 6, 7. Principes aspernantes quidem, sed recusare non ausos Persicis ornaverat vestibus. 4. The spernens follows a moral and rational aversion, and acts more or less with a consciousness of his grounds for despising anything; whereas the fastidiens follows a physical and instinctive aversion, whether it be an innate or temporary antipathy, which arises either from an actual loathing, or from what appears like it; lastly, the negligens follows the suggestion neither of reason, nor yet of instinct and feeling, but acts without thought or purpose. (ii. 178.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein