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contemptĭbĭlis (-temt-), e, adj. [contemno], contemptible (post-class.), Dig. 1, 16, 9; 21, 2, 37; Arn. 4, p. 155.
Comp., Lampr. Alex. Sev. 20.

contemptĭbĭlĭtas (-temt-), ātis, f. [contemptibilis], contemptibleness, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 5, 158.

contemptim (-temt-), adv. [contemno],

  1. I. contemptuously, with contempt, scornfully (a favorite word of Livy; elsewhere rare): superbiter contemptim conterit legiones, Naev. ap. Non. p. 516, 1; imitated: ne nos tam contemptim conteras, Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 34: magnifice de se ac contemptim de Romanis loquentes, Liv. 9, 41, 9: superbe quaedam et contemptim in se contionantem, id. 37, 10, 2; 2, 35, 3; 2, 56, 12: morte consulis succedentes ad castra Romana, id. 7, 7, 2; 6, 38, 8 Drak.: a Dioxippo contemptim militarem eludente ferociam, * Curt. 9, 7, 19; Tac. H. 3, 9 fin.; 3, 58 fin.: vagabantur barbari, id. ib. 3, 47 Orell. N. cr.
  2. II. Poet., transf. of an inanimate subject: e summo, quasi fulmen, deicit ictos Invidia contemptim in Tartara, * Lucr. 5, 1126.

contemptĭo (-temt-), ōnis, f. [contemno], a despising; disregard, contempt, scorn, disdain (in good prose): omnium rerum humanarum contemptio ac despicientia, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95: fortitudo est dolorum laborumque contemptio, id. Off. 3, 33, 117; id. Rep. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 201, 30; Hortens. Fragm. ib. p. 202, 1: mortis perpetua, Curt. 10, 8, 29: fortunae, Cic. Par. 4, 1, 27: pecuniae, id. Phil. 3, 6, 16: deorum inmortalium, Liv. 6, 41, 4: ut jam non solum hostibus in contemptionem Sabinus veniret, etc., was despised by, Caes. B. G. 3, 17; 5, 49; id. B. C. 3, 60: (adversarii) in contemptionem adducentur, si, etc., Cic. Inv. 1, 16, 22.