(verb) : circum-specto, āvi, ātum, āre
* 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.)
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* 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.
* 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.
* 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.—(ε) 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.

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