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καταφρονεῖ (kataphronei)

καταφρονεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of καταφρονέω, meaning “despise, look down on”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 503: λάζυσθε· καταφρονεῖ με καὶ Θήβας ὅδε.

Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.4.12: μὴ καταφρόνει, ἔφη, ὦ Νικομαχίδη, τῶν οἰκονομικῶν ἀνδρῶν· ἡ γὰρ τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιμέλεια πλήθει μόνον διαφέρει τῆς τῶν κοινῶν, τ …

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.