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|lshtext=<b>scrūtor</b>: āri, ātus,<br /><b>I</b> v. dep. a. [[scruta]]; cf.: γρυτεύει,> scrutatur, Gloss. Philox.], qs. to [[search]] [[even]] to the rags, i. e. to [[search]] [[carefully]], [[examine]] [[thoroughly]], [[explore]] a [[thing]]; to [[search]], [[examine]] a [[person]] (syn.: [[indago]], [[rimo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., of things: domos, naves, Cic. Vatin. 5, 12: loca abdita, Sall. J. 12, 5: omnia foramina parietum scrutatur, Petr. 98, 1: paleam, id. 33, 4: terraï abdita ferro, Lucr. 6, 809: ignem gladio, Hor. S. 2, 3, 276: lumina manibus, Sen. Oedip. 965: [[scrutatus]] [[sum]] quae potui et quae vidi omnia: inveni duos solos libellos, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 74, § 182; cf. Tac. H. 4, 1: L. [[Crassus]] spiculis [[prope]] [[scrutatus]] est [[Alpes]], Cic. Pis. 26, 62: occulta saltuum, Tac. A. 1, 61: [[mare]], id. Agr. 30; id. G. 45; cf.: scrutandi [[orbis]] gratiā, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 9: [[canis]] scrutatur vestigia (ferarum), id. 8, 40, 61, § 147: venantium latibula [[scrutatus]], Curt. 6, 5, 17: vias [[presso]] [[ore]] ([[canis]]), Sen. Thyest. 499: equorum delicta scrutantes, Amm. 14, 6, 25.—Of [[personal]] objects: Eu. Ostende huc manum dexteram ... Nunc laevam ostende ... Jam scrutari [[mitto]], to [[search]] [[you]], Plaut. Aul. 4, 4, 24: non [[excutio]] te, non [[scrutor]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 97; so of [[searching]], Asin. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 31, 1: consuetudinem salutantes scrutandi, Suet. Vesp. 12 fin.; and of a [[searching]] for [[spoil]], Tac. H. 3, 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[seek]] for, [[search]] [[out]] a [[thing]] ([[post]]-Aug. and [[very]] [[rare]]): venas melini [[inter]] saxa, Plin. 35, 6, 19, § 37: [[iter]], Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 172; cf. [[infra]], II. B.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[examine]] [[thoroughly]]; to [[explore]], [[investigate]]: [[quod]] est [[ante]] [[pedes]] [[nemo]] spectat: caeli scrutantur plagas, Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 18, 30; Cic. Div. 2, 13, 30 (Trag. v. 277 Vahl.): omnes [[sordes]], id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3, § 11; cf: nomina ac [[vultus]], alacritatem tristitiamque coëuntium, Tac. A. 16, 5: animos ceterorum secretis sermonibus, id. H. 4, 55: voluntatem, Quint. 2, 4, 26: locos, ex quibus argumenta eruamus, Cic. de Or 2, 34, 146; cf. id. Part. 3, 8: desinamus [[aliquando]] ea scrutari, quae sunt inania, id. Rosc. Am. 30, 83; cf.: [[quod]] non ratione scrutabimur, non poterimus invenire [[nisi]] casu, Quint. 5, 10, 22: interiores et reconditas litteras, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42: origines nominum, Quint. 1, 4, 25: omnia [[minutius]] et scrupulosius, id. 5, 14, 28: inferiora [[quoque]], id. 7, 1, 27: exoletos auctores, id. 8, 2, 12: scripturas, Vulg. Johan. 5, 39.—Absol.: totum diem [[mecum]] [[scrutor]], facta ac dicta mea [[remetior]], Sen. Ira, 3, 36, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf. (cf. [[supra]], I. B.), to [[search]] [[into]]; to [[search]] [[out]], [[find]] [[out]] a [[thing]] (so not [[till]] [[after]] the Aug. per.): fibras Inspiciunt, mentes deum scrutantur in illis, Ov. M. 15, 137: finem principis per Chaldaeos, Tac. A. 12, 52: sua Caesarisque fata, id. ib. 16, 14: arcanum ullius, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 37: ut causas hujus infinitae differentiae scrutetur, Tac. Or. 15; cf. Plin. Ep. 4, 30, 11: harenarum numerum et montium pondera scrutari, Amm. 14, 11, 34.—P. a.: scrūtans, antis ([[late]] Lat.), perh. [[only]] in [[sup]]., [[that]] [[most]] [[closely]] examines: [[militaris]] rei ordinum scrutantissimus, Amm. 30, 9, 4.— Hence, adv.: scrūtanter, searchingly, Ambros. Ep. 80.Act. collat. form scrūto, āre, acc. to Prisc. p. 799 P; cf. γρυτεύω,> [[scruto]], Gloss. Philox.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> scrūtor, ātus, [[pass]]., Amm. 28, 1, 10; 15, 8, 16; Aur. Vict. Orig. 6, 3.

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