obtutus

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

obtūtus: ūs, m. obtueor,
I a seeing, looking at or upon any thing (class., but in prose always with oculorum, unless this word is obviously supplied by the context; cf. aspectus): obtutu quasi obtuitu a verbo tuor quod significat video, Paul. ex Fest. p. 187 Müll.: oculorum, Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 17; so id. Univ. 8; id. N. D. 3, 4, 9: obtutum aliquo figere, id. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 107: dum stupet, obtutuque haeret defixus in uno, Verg. A. 1, 495: obtutu tacito stetit, id. ib. 12, 666: defixa Latinus Obtutu tenet ora, id. ib. 7, 249: oculi in uno obtutu defixi, Sen. de Ira, 3, 4 init.—Trop.: in obtutu malorum, in the contemplation of, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 39.—In plur.: nil intecurrens obtutibus, Prud. Hamart. 915.—
II (Late Lat.) The eye: quis ita gemino obtutu eluminatus. Sid. Ep. 8, 11.—More freq. in plur.: ita videri nostris obtutibus constitutis, Amm. 20, 3, 12; 24, 6, 8: humi prostrati sub obtutibus ejus, id. 17, 8, 5.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

obtūtŭs,¹³ ūs, m. (obtueor), action de regarder : oculorum Cic. Nat. 3, 9, vue, cf. Cic. Div. 2, 120 ; de Or. 3, 17