(v. a.P. a.) : pervĭdĕo, vīdi, vīsum, 2, v. a.
* To look over, look on, overlook, survey.
* Lit.: sol pervidet omnia,Ov. M. 14, 375.
* Transf., to look at or upon, to view: cunctaque mens oculis pervidet illa suis,Ov. P. 1, 8, 34: cum tua pervideas oculis mala lippus inunctis,Hor. S. 1, 3, 25.
* Trop.
* To consider, examine: pervideamus, utrum, etc.,Lucr. 1, 956: videbo te et pervidebo,Cic. Att. 4, 12 fin. (B. and K. promonebo).
* To perceive, discern, Lucr. 2, 90 (for Cic. Att. 15, 4, 2; v. 2. pervolo): meritorum meorum fieri accessionem pervidere te spero,Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 1: infirmitatem animorum,id. Att. 12, 38, 2; Col. 2, 1, 5.—Hence, * per-vĭdens, entis, P. a., sagacious, intelligent: pervidentissimus princeps,Front. Aquaed. 11 dub. (al. providentissimus).

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