I. = specimen, a mark, sign, proof: “spectamen bono servo id est, Ut absente ero rem sui eri diligenter Tutetur,” Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 1.—
II. = spectaculum, a sight, scene, spectacle (Appuleian): “miserum funestumque spectamen aspexi,” App. M. 4, p. 151, 35: “novum et memorandum,” id. ib. 7, p. 193, 23.