ex-spes (expes), adj. (only in the nom. sing.), without hope, hopeless (poet. and in Tac.).
- (α) With gen.: exspes liberūm, Att. ap. Non. 12, 7: vitae, Tac. A. 6, 24.
- (β) Absol.: solus, inops, exspes, Ov. M. 14, 217: si fractis enatat exspes Navibus, Hor. A. P. 20.