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|lshtext=<b>circum-specto</b>: āvi, ātum, āre, v. freq. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[look]] [[about]] [[with]] [[attention]], [[precaution]], [[desire]], etc.; to [[cast]] a [[look]] [[around]], to [[search]] [[around]]; and [[with]] acc., to [[look]] [[about]] one's [[self]] ([[attentively]], [[anxiously]], etc.) [[after]] [[something]], to [[look]] all [[around]] [[upon]] [[something]] ([[class]].)<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.: dum [[circumspecto]], Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 45 (al.: me [[circumspecto]]): [[quanto]] se opere custodiant bestiae, ut in pastu circumspectent, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 126: [[primum]] circumspectans tergiversari, Liv. 4, 14, 4; Plin. 8, 4, 5, § 9: circumspectans huc et [[illuc]], Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: te [[hercle]] ego circumspectabam, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 8: [[alia]], Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 54; 2, 2, 60: [[inter]] se, Tac. H. 2, 29: ora principum, Liv. 26, 18, 6: [[quousque]] me circumspectabitis? id. 6, 18, 7; cf. Tac. H. 4, 8: omnia, to [[look]] [[about]] [[anxiously]], Cic. Pis. 41, 99; Sall. J. 72, 2; cf.: [[mare]] et silvas, ignota omnia circumspectantes, Tac. Agr. 32 Ritter (Halm: [[circum]] spectantes).—Pass.: muta [[atque]] inanima, [[tectum]] et parietes circumspectabantur, Tac. A. 4, 69 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With a rel.-[[clause]]: [[Nabis]] [[quanam]] [[ipse]] evaderet circumspectabat, Liv. 34, 39, 8; cf. [[with]] foll. si, id. 25, 36, 5: si [[quam]] reperiat, Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc. and ut [[with]] subj.: dum [[alius]] [[alium]], ut [[proelium]] ineant, circumspectant, Liv. 2, 10, 9.—（ε) Reflex. ([[only]] in Plaut.; cf. [[circumspicio]], I. A.): loca contemplat, circumspectat [[sese]], [[atque]] [[aedis]] noscitat, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 21; cf. id. Bacch. 2, 3, 45 [[supra]].—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: dubitans, circumspectans, haesitans, [[tanquam]] [[rate]] in mari immenso nostra vehitur [[oratio]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73: circumspectantes defectionis [[tempus]], watching, [[waiting]], on the [[look]]-[[out]] for, Liv. 21, 39, 5: [[initium]] erumpendi, Tac. H. 1, 55: [[Vespasianus]] [[bellum]] armaque et [[procul]] vel juxta sitas [[vires]] circumspectabat, [[carefully]] weighed, considered, id. ib. 2, 74; so, fugam et fallendi artes, id. ib. 3, 73: medicamina [[quasso]] imperio, Sil. 15, 7: omnes argumentorum locos, Quint. 12, 8, 14.
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