circum-specto

circum-specto, āvi, ātum, āre, v. freq. a., 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.)

Prop.

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.—

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. —

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.—

With acc. and ut with subj.:

dum alius alium, ut proelium ineant, circumspectant,

Liv. 2, 10, 9.—

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.—

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.