verb deponent

contemplor

2nd PP con-templārī · 3rd PP con-templātus · conj. 1st

(arch. inf. contemplarier, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 10)

to look at, view attentively, to survey, behold, gaze upon, give attention to, observe, consider, contemplate

templum, I. A. (orig. pertaining to the lang. of augury; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 9 Müll.), to look at, view attentively, to survey, behold, gaze upon, give attention to, observe, consider, contemplate, = considero (class. in prose and poetry).

Physically.

sed Is hac abiit; contemplabor, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 35: satis ut contemplata… absol •

Absol.: sed Is hac abiit; contemplabor, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 35: satis ut contemplata modo sis, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 4: contemplator, cum, etc., Lucr. 2, 113; 6, 189; Verg. G. 1, 187; 4, 61.—

With obj. acc.: cum intueor et contemplor unumquemque vestrum, Cic. Planc. 1,… with obj. acc. ••

With obj. acc.: cum intueor et contemplor unumquemque vestrum, Cic. Planc. 1, 2: contemplari unum quidque otiose et considerare coepit, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 15, § 33: cum caelum suspeximus caelestiaque contemplati sumus, id. N. D. 2, 2, 4: oculis pulchritudlnem rerum, id. ib. 2, 38, 98; cf. Hor. S. 1, 2, 91: loci naturam ab omni parte, Liv. 35, 28, 2: aliquem, Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 10: vultum, Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 32: lituras codicis, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 41: nummos in arcā, Hor. S. 1, 1, 67: udum Tibur, id. C. 3, 29, 6 al.—

Mentally (several times in Cic.): propone tibi duos reges, et id animo… absol ••

Mentally (several times in Cic.): propone tibi duos reges, et id animo contemplare, quod oculis non potes, Cic. Deiot. 14, 40: aliquid secum considerare et contemplari, id. Off. 1, 43, 153: ut totam causam acerrime contemplemini, id. Fl. 11, 26: res, id. N. D. 1, 27, 77.—Absol., Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 151.

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