I.v. dep. a. [id.], to get sight of, to descry, see, perceive (very freq. in Plaut. and Caes.; several times in Ter.; elsewh. rare; never in Lucr., Cic., Virg., or Hor.).
(α).
With acc.: “nec quemquam conspicor alium in viā,” Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 4: “Epidicumne ego conspicor?” id. Ep. 1, 1, 3; 1, 1, 70: “ante aedis erum meum,” id. ib. 2, 2, 3; “3, 2, 9: in tenebris conspicatus si sis me,” id. Ps. 4, 2, 24; Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 32: “(Ajacem) occisum,” Auct. Her. 1, 11, 18; Caes. B. G. 1, 25; 5, 9; 7, 45 al.; * Nep. Eum. 9, 5; Phaedr. 2, 8, 25 al.: “hunc conspicatae naves,” Caes. B. C. 2, 22.—
(β).
With acc. and part.: “hic quis est, quem huc advenientem conspicor,” Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 50: “perterritos hostes conspicati,” Caes. B. G. 2, 27; Liv. 2, 20, 1 and 8; Quint. 4, 2, 13.—
(γ).
With acc. and inf. as object: “illam geminos filios pueros peperisse conspicor,” Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 18; id. Curc. 5, 1, 5; id. Bacch. 4, 4, 18; Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 16.—
(δ).
With rel.-clause: “quae res in nostris castris gererentur conspicati,” Caes. B. G. 2, 26.—（ε) Absol.: “contempla et conspicare idem esse apparet,” Varr. L. L. 7, § 9 Müll.: “cum interim Metellus ... conspicatur, primo dubius quidnam insolita facies ostenderet,” Sall. J. 49, 5 Dietsch; Jacobs ad loc. (where MSS. have conspicitur, v. conspicio, I. A. β; but cf. Don. ad Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 102).!*? Pass., to be seen: ut nunc paupertas conspicatur (θεωρεῖται), Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.
