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temno, ĕre, v. a. [root tam-, to cut; Gr. τέμνω], to slight, scorn, disdain, despise, contemn (poet. and very rare for the class. contemnere); semper aves quod abest praesentia temnis, Lucr. 3, 957; jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit, Hor. S. 2, 2, 38: divos, Verg. A. 6, 620: praeteritum temnens extremos inter euntem, Hor. S. 1, 1, 116: ne temne, quod ultro Praeferimus manibus vittas et verba precantia, Verg. A. 7, 236: pars non temnenda decoris, Ov. A. A. 3, 299; cf.: haud temnendae manus ductor, Tac. H. 3, 47.
Tēmnos, i, m., = Τῆμνος, a town in Æolia, now Menimen, Plin. 5, 30, 32, § 121; Cic. Fl. 18, 42 al.
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