sight

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Στέργει γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν → No one loves the bearer of bad news

Sophocles, Antigone, 277

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substantive

power of seeing: P. and V. ὄψις, ἡ, πρόσοψις, ἡ.

eye: P. and V. ὀφθαλμός, ὁ, ὄψις, ἡ. ὄμμα, τό (Thuc. and Plato but rare P.); see eye.

range of sight: P. ἔποψις, ἡ.

have sight, v.: P. and V. ὁρᾶν, Ar. and V. βλέπειν.

recover one's sight: Ar. and P. ἀναβλέπειν (absol.).

his sight is opened and made clear: V. ἐξωμμάτωται καὶ λελάμπρυνται κόρας (Sophocles, Fragment).

spectacle: P. and V. θέα, ἡ, θέαμα, τό, θεωρία, ἡ, ὄψις, ἡ, V. πρόσοψις, ἡ (Euripides, Orestes 952).

at sight, off-hand: P. and V. φαύλως; see off-hand.

in sight, adj.: P. κάτοπτος, V. ἐπόψιος, προσόψιος.

be in sight, v.: P. and V. φαίνω, φαίνεσθαι; see visible.

in sight of, prep.: P. and V. ἐναντίον (gen.).

looking over, adj.: V. κατόψιος (gen.).

out of sight: V. ἄποπτος, Ar. and V. ἐξώπιος. V. ἐξώπιος (gen.).

come in sight: P. and V. εἰς ὄψιν ἔρχεσθαι.

lose sight of: see overlook.

lose sight of land: P. ἀποκρύπτειν γῆν (Plato).

that I may not by passing from point to point lose sight of the present matter: P. ἵνα μὴ λόγον ἐκ λόγου λέγων τοῦ παρόντος ἐμαυτὸν ἐκκρούσω (Dem. 329).

verb transitive

see spy, see.