contemplātĭo (noun F) : id.
* An attentive considering, a viewing, surveying, contemplation (in good prose).
* Physical.
* In gen.: caeli,Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93: injecit contemplationem super umeros,cast a look over,Petr. 12, 4.
* Mental.
* In gen., a contemplation, survey: est animorum ingeniorumque naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturae,Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127: rerum naturae,Cels. 1 praef.: ipsius naturae,Quint. 3, 6, 86; in plur.: naturae,Gell. 20, 5, 3: recti pravique,Quint. 2, 4, 20: veri,id. 6, 2, 5: iniqui,id. 12, 1, 35: rerum, scripti,id. 3, 6, 89: sui,id. 2, 18, 4: virtutum,Tac. Agr. 46: publicae felicitatis,Curt. 10, 9, 7: summa vis infinitatis et magnā ac diligenti contemplatione dignissima est,Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 50; so absol., id. ib. 1, 12, 18; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 12.—Hence
* In partic., a consideration, regard (mostly late Lat.; freq. in the jurists): liberorum,Just. 7, 5, 7: justitiae ejus,id. 8, 3, 14: personarum,Dig. 2, 15, 8; 3, 5, 5; 18, 1, 58; Inscr. Orell. 3161 et saep.: contemplatione mortis donatio facta, = mortis causā,Paul. Sent. 2, 23, 6.

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