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κατοπτ-εύω ,
A.spy out, ὠτακουστεῖν καὶ κ. v.l. for διοπτ- in X.Cyr.8.2.10; observe closely, ἅπαντα, φύσιν ἀνθρώπων, Plb.1.4.11, D.H.Lys.7; reconnoitre, Plb.3.45.3; of a night-policeman, POxy.1033.13 (iv A.D.); visit, explore a country, Plb.34.1.8, 34.5.9; “τὸν οὐράνιον χῶρον” Arist.Mu.391a10; “ἐπὶ τοῦ Πηγάσου τὸν οὐρανόν” Asclep.Myrl. ap. Sch.Il.6.155; κ. ἐς . . AP 5.122 (Phld.):—Pass., Plb.3.37.11, Str.2.4.6; to be observed, S.Aj. 829; “μὴ κατοπτευθῶ παρών” Id.Ph.124; “ἐκ τῶν φαινομένων κατωπτευμένων” Phld.Sign.25.
II. Astrol., exert a baleful aspect, Petos. ap. Vett. Val.112.37.
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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    • Homer, Iliad, 6.155
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