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conspicor, to get sight of, descry, see, perceive

conspĭcor, ātus, 1, v. dep. a. [1. conspicio],
  • to get sight of, to descry, see, perceive (very freq. in Plaut. and Caes.; several times in Ter.; elsewh. rare; never in Lucr., Cic., Virg., or Hor.).
          • α With acc.: nec quemquam conspicor alium in viā, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 4 (656): Epidicumne ego conspicor? id. Ep. 1, 1, 3 (3); 1, 1, 70 (70): ante aedis erum meum, id. ib. 2, 2, 3 (183); 3, 2, 9 (345): in tenebris conspicatus si sis me, id. Ps. 4, 2, 24 (979); Ter. Eun. 1062: (Ajacem) occisum, Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18; Caes. B. G. 1, 25; 5, 9; 7, 45 al.; * Nep. Eum. 9, 5; Phaedr. 2, 8, 25 al.: hunc conspicatae naves, Caes. B. C. 2, 22.—
          • β With acc. and part.: hic quis est, quem huc advenientem conspicor, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 50 (431): perterritos hostes conspicati, Caes. B. G. 2, 27; Liv. 2, 20, 1 and 8; Quint. 4, 2, 13.—
          • γ With acc. and inf. as object: illam geminos filios pueros peperisse conspicor, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 18 (1070); id. Curc. 5, 1, 5 (595); id. Bacch. 4, 4, 18 (657); Ter. Heaut. 68.—
          • δ With rel.-clause: quae res in nostris castris gererentur conspicati, Caes. B. G. 2, 26.—
          • ε Absol.: contempla et conspicare idem esse apparet, Varr. L. L. 7, § 9 Müll.: cum interim Metellus ... conspicatur, primo dubius quidnam insolita facies ostenderet, Sall. J. 49, 5 Dietsch; Jacobs ad loc. (where MSS. have conspicitur, v. conspicio, I. A. β; but cf. Don. ad Ter. Eun. 393).☞ Pass., to be seen: ut nunc paupertas conspicatur (θεωρεῖται), Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.

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