καταφρονεῖσθαι (kataphroneisthai)

καταφρονεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of καταφρονέω, meaning “despise, look down on”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 19.3: … ἀλλὰ πρᾷον καὶ φιλάνθρωπον ὑπὸ τῆς ἐξουσίας ἔσεσθαι τόν δῆμον· οὐ γὰρ καταφρονοῦντι τῆς βουλῆς, ἀλλʼ οἰομένῳ καταφρονεῖσθαι τιμὴν καὶ παραμυθίαν γενήσεσθαι τήν κρίσιν, ὥσθʼ ἅμα τήν ψῆφον λαβόντας ἀποθήσεσθαι τήν ὀργήν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene 15: … οὖν ἴσως ἐλάττους οἱ τοιοῦτοι τῶν ἑτέρων, μᾶλλον δὲ πολλοστὸν ἐκείνων μέρος, καὶ τοῦτο οὐθεὶς ἀγνοεῖ· οὐ μὴν καταφρονεῖσθαί γε διὰ ταῦτα ἄξιοι. ὁ μὲν οὖν τῶν ὀλίγων καὶ εὐπαιδεύτων στοχαζόμενος λόγος οὐκ ἔσται τῷ φαύλῳ καὶ ἀμαθεῖ πλή …

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.