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|lshtext=<b>spēcŭla</b>: ae, f.<br /> [[dim]]. [[spes]]; cf. [[recula]], from res,<br /><b>I</b> a [[slight]] [[hope]] ([[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): estne [[quid]] in te speculae? Plaut. Pers. 2, 5, 9; id. Cas. 2, 4, 27: ulla nec [[specula]] est, id. Rud. 3, 3, 3; Cic. Clu. 26, 72: oblectabar speculā, id. Fam. 2, 16, 5: cassae speculae renuntias [[fortiter]], App. M. 6, p. 175, 17: tenui speculā solabar [[clades]] ultimas, id. ib. 10, p. 253, 5.<br /><b>spĕcŭla</b>: ae, f. id..<br /><b>I</b> A [[high]] [[place]] from [[which]] to [[look]] [[out]], a [[look]]-[[out]], [[watch]]-[[tower]]: [[specula]], de quo prospicimus, Varr. L. L. 6, § 82 Müll.: praedonum adventum significabat [[ignis]] e speculā [[sublatus]], Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 93: dat [[signum]] speculā ab altā, Verg. A. 3, 239; Luc. 6, 279: [[tamquam]] ex aliquā speculā prospexi tempestatem futuram, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; id. Phil. 7, 7, 19; Col. 7, 3 fin. al.—Plur., Liv. 29, 23' specularum significationem [[Sinon]] invenit, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202; Stat. Th. 6, 547; App. de Mundo, p. 69, 40.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., a watchtower: stetit [[Caesar]] in illā amicitiae speculā, Plin. [[Pan]]. 86, 4.—<br /><b>II</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In speculis esse, to be on the [[watch]] or lookout: [[nunc]] homines in speculis sunt, [[observant]], [[quemadmodum]] [[sese]] [[unusquisque]] vestrum gerat, Cic. Verr. 1, 16, 46; cf. id. Deiot. 8, 22: in speculis [[omnis]] [[Abydos]] erat, Ov. H. (17), 18, 12: in speculis [[atque]] insidiis relicti, Cic. Mur. 37, 79: diem unum in speculis fuit, Liv. 34, 26: gentis paratas pendere in speculis, Claud. B. Get. 569.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Poet., [[like]] [[σκοπιά]]>, a [[high]] [[place]], [[height]], [[eminence]]: in speculis summoque in vertice montis Planities ignota jacet, Verg. A. 11, 526; so of the summits of mountains, id. E. 8, 59; id. A. 10, 454; of the [[high]] walls of a [[city]], id. ib. 11, 877; 4, 586.