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.—
II. Poet., transf. of an inanimate subject: e summo, quasi fulmen, deicit ictos Invidia contemptim in Tartara, * Lucr. 5, 1126.
