adspice
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adspicio, adspicere, adspexi, adspectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
look/gaze on/at, see, observe, behold, regard; face; consider, contemplate;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uideris quanta sint, rursus ex quanto prodeant adspice. Miraris, cum labantur assidue, quaedam uero concitata rapiantur, quod praesto..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...tamen minimae partes sunt eorum, quae gignunt. Adspice Rhenum, adspice Euphraten, omnes denique inclutos amnes: quid sunt..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...aerii mellis caelestia dona exsequar: hanc etiam, Maecenas, adspice partem. Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum magnanimosque duces totiusque..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...palluit et cunctis, ut cuique erat obvia, divis 'adspice,' dicebat 'quanta mihi mole parentur insidiae, quantaque caput..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...putas speciosaque nomina culpae inponis, Medea, tuae?—quin adspice, quantum adgrediare nefas, et, dum licet, effuge crimen!' dixit..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quoque flumina septem argento partim, partim caelaverat auro, 'adspice' ait 'Perseu, nostrae primordia gentis: magna feres tacitas solacia..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...bracchia tendat, trunca sed ostendens dereptis vulnera membris 'adspice, mater!' ait. visis ululavit Agaue collaque iactavit movitque..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...certa timendo et patrio pater esse metu probor. adspice vultus ecce meos; utinamque oculos in pectora posses inserere..."