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circum-specto , āvi, ātum, āre, v. freq. a.,
I.to look about with attention, precaution, desire, etc.; to cast a look around, to search around; and with acc., to look about one's self (attentively, anxiously, etc.) after something, to look all around upon something (class.)
I. Prop.
(β). With acc.: te hercle ego circumspectabam, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 8: “alia,Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 54; 2, 2, 60: “inter se,Tac. H. 2, 29: “ora principum,Liv. 26, 18, 6: “quousque me circumspectabitis?id. 6, 18, 7; cf. Tac. H. 4, 8: “omnia,to look about anxiously, Cic. Pis. 41, 99; Sall. J. 72, 2; cf.: “mare et silvas, ignota omnia circumspectantes,Tac. Agr. 32 Ritter (Halm: circum spectantes).—Pass.: “muta atque inanima, tectum et parietes circumspectabantur,Tac. A. 4, 69 fin.
(γ). With a rel.-clause: “Nabis quanam ipse evaderet circumspectabat,Liv. 34, 39, 8; cf. with foll. si, id. 25, 36, 5: “si quam reperiat,Auct. Her. 4, 49, 62.—
(δ). With acc. and ut with subj.: “dum alius alium, ut proelium ineant, circumspectant,Liv. 2, 10, 9.—(ε) Reflex. (only in Plaut.; cf. “circumspicio, I. A.): loca contemplat, circumspectat sese, atque aedis noscitat,Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 21; cf. id. Bacch. 2, 3, 45 supra.—
II. Trop.: “dubitans, circumspectans, haesitans, tanquam rate in mari immenso nostra vehitur oratio,Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 73: “circumspectantes defectionis tempus,watching, waiting, on the look-out for, Liv. 21, 39, 5: “initium erumpendi,Tac. H. 1, 55: “Vespasianus bellum armaque et procul vel juxta sitas vires circumspectabat,carefully weighed, considered, id. ib. 2, 74; so, “fugam et fallendi artes,id. ib. 3, 73: “medicamina quasso imperio,Sil. 15, 7: “omnes argumentorum locos,Quint. 12, 8, 14.
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