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ἐμ-βλέπω , pf.
A.“ἐμβέβλοφα” PLond.1.42.21 (ii B.C.):—look in the face, look at, “τινὶ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς” Pl.Chrm.155c, cf. D.19.69; “ἐ. εἰς τὸν ὀφθαλμόν” Pl.Alc. 1.132e, etc.: c. acc., ἐμβλέπω σε, παῖ, Com.Adesp.17.7 D., cf. Herod. 2.68, AP11.3, Ev.Marc.8.25: abs., X.Mem.3.11.10, Arist.EN1175a9.
b. ἐ. εἰς consider, “τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ” Ev.Matt.6.26; look into a matter, PTeb.28.15 (ii B.C.).
2. simply, look, ποῖ ἐμβλέψασα . . ; S.El.995; δεινὸν ἐ. Pl.Ion535e, Plu.Pyrrh.34, etc.; πῦρ ἐ. Philostr. Im.1.28; “ἱρὰ ἐς λῷον -οντα” Herod.4.80.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 69
    • New Testament, Mark, 8.25
    • New Testament, Matthew, 6.26
    • Plato, Charmides, 155c
    • Plato, Ion, 535e
    • Sophocles, Electra, 995
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 3.11.10
    • Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 34
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.28
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