καταφρονήσαντες (kataphronesantes)

καταφρονήσαντες is an Ancient Greek form of καταφρονέω, meaning “despise, look down on”. It is the aorist active participle nominative plural masculine.

Found 89 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.34.1: … ὐθὺς ἄξια τῆς προσδοκίας ἐπεπόνθεσαν, ὥσπερ ὅτε πρῶτον ἀπέβαινον τῇ γνώμῃ δεδουλωμένοι ὡς ἐπὶ Λακεδαιμονίους, καταφρονήσαντες καὶ ἐμβοήσαντες ἁθρόοι ὥρμησαν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἔβαλλον λίθοις τε καὶ τοξεύμασι καὶ ἀκοντίοις, ὡς ἕκαστός τι πρ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 54.33.3: … άκωσαν, καί ποτε ἐς στενὸν καὶ κοῖλον χωρίον κατακλείσαντες ὀλίγου διέφθειραν, κἂν πασσυδὶ ἂν ἀπώλεσαν, εἰ μὴ καταφρονήσαντές σφων ὡς καὶ ἑαλωκότων καὶ μιᾶς ἐπικοπῆς

All forms of καταφρονέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.