Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ὁράω

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I.absol. to see or look, Hom., etc.; κατ᾽ αὐτοὺς αἰὲν ὅρα he kept looking down at them, Il.; ὁρόων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον looking over the sea, id=Il.:— ὁρᾶν πρός τι, like Lat. spectare ad, to look towards, ἀκρωτήριον τὸ πρὸς Μέγαρα ὁρῶν Thuc.

2.to have sight, Soph.: hence says Oedipus, ὅσ᾽ ἂν λέγωμεν, πάνθ᾽ ὁρῶντα λέξομεν [though I am blind], my words shall have eyes, i. e. shall be to the purpose, id=Soph.; ἀμβλύτερον ὁρᾶν to be dim-sighted, Plat.

3.to see to, look to, i. e. take heed, beware, ὅρα ὅπως . ., Ar.; ὅρα εἰ . . , see whether . . , Aesch., etc.

4.ὁρᾷς; ὁρᾶτε; see'st thou? d'ye see? parenthetically, esp. in explanations, like Lat. viden'? Ar.

5.c. acc. cogn. to look so and so, δεινὸν ὁρῶν ὄσσοισι Hes.; ἔαρ ὁρόωσα Theocr.

II.trans. to see an object, look at, behold, perceive, observe, c. acc., Hom., etc.; αἰεὶ τέρμ᾽ ὁρόων always keeping it in sight, Il.

2.poet. for ζάω, ζώει καὶ ὁρᾷ φάος Ἠελίοιο Hom.; so, φῶς ὁρᾶν Soph.; and in Mid., φέγγος ὁρᾶσθαι Eur.

III.to look out for, provide, τί τινι Soph., Theocr.

2.the inf. is used after an adj., δεινὸς ἰδεῖν terrible to behold, Solon; ἔχθιστος ὁρᾶν Soph., etc.

IV.the Mid. is used by Poets just like the Act., Il., Aesch., etc.

V.Pass. to be seen, Aesch., etc.: also like φαίνομαι to let oneself be seen, appear, Plat.: τὰ ὁρώμενα all that is seen, things visible, id=Plat.

VI.metaph., ὁρᾶν is used of mental sight, to discern, perceive, Soph., etc.; so blind Oedipus says, φωνῇ γὰρ ὁρῶ, τὸ φατιζόμενον I see by sound, as the saying is, id=Soph.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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