(verb) : vīso, si, sum, 3, and n. video
* To look at attentively, to view, behold, survey (class.).
* Lit.: ludos nuptiales,Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 2: ex muris visite agros vestros ferro inique vastatos,Liv. 3, 68, 2: praeda Macedonica omnis, ut viseretur, exposita,id. 45, 33, 5: ubi audiret potius contumelias inperatoris quam viseret,Tac. A. 14, 1.— Absol.: vise, specta tuo arbitratu,Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 106: visendi causā venire,Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 9: undigue visendi studio Trojana juventus Circumfusa ruit,Verg. A. 2, 63. —P. a.: visendus, to be seen, worth seeing: ornatus,Cic. Vatin. 13, 31: arbores visendae magnitudinis,Plin. 16, 44, 91, § 242.—Pass.: nec civitas ulla visitur, is seen, i. e. exists, Amm. 16, 3, 1.—Subst.: vīsenda, ōrum, n., objects worth notice, sights: Athenae multa visenda habentes,Liv. 45, 27.
* Transf.
* To go or come in order to look at, to see to, look after; constr. with acc., a rel.-clause, or ad.
* With acc.: illa in arcem abivit, aedem visere Minervae,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 59; cf. id. Rud. 5, 1, 6: fit concursus per vias; Filios suos quisque visunt,id. Ep. 2, 2, 28.
* To go to see, to visit any one, esp. a sick person (qs. to see how he is).
* With ad: vise ad portum,Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 114: accensus dicit sic: omnes Quirites, inlicium visite huc ad judices,Varr. L. L. 6, § 88 Müll.
* With acc.: constitui ad te venire, ut et viderem te et viserem et cenarem etiam,Cic. Fam. 9, 23: uxorem Pamphili,Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 6 sq.: quae Paphon visit,Hor. C. 3, 28, 15: altos Visere montes,id. ib. 1, 2, 8 et saep.— Pass., of places: propter quem Thespiae visuntur,is visited,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, § 4: Cn. Octavii domus cum vulgo viseretur,id. Off. 1, 39, 138.
* With ad: aegram esse simulant mulierem: nostra ilico It visere ad eam,Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 114; cf.: L. Piso ap. Gell. 6, 9, 5; Lucr. 6, 1238; Ov. Am. 2, 2, 22.