(verb) : contemplo, āvi, ātum, 1, (anteand post-class.; collat. form of contemplor)
* To survey, behold, observe, consider, contemplate, etc.; freq. in imper.: adspecta et contempla, Epidice,Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 16: contempla et templum Cereris ad laevam aspice, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 9 Müll.; id. ap. Non. p. 470, 5; Att. and Titin. ib. p. 469, 31, and 470, 2; Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 38 al.: contemplo placide formam et faciem virginis, Naev. ap. Non. p. 469, 33; Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 285; id. As. 3, 1, 35; id. Trin. 4, 2, 21 al.— With inf., Nemes. Fragm. de Aucup. 3, p. 49 Stern.
* Contemplātus, a, um, in a pass. signif.: ipse ab contemplato situ Carthaginis rediit,Liv. 30, 36, 6 dub.; so, scripta,Amm. 31, 15, 6; 16, 8, 6: hoc,id. 31, 5, 9.