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suspĭcĭo , spexi, spectum, 3, v. a. and n. sub-specio.
I. To look up or upwards, to look up at a thing.
A. Lit.: “cum caelum suspeximus,Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 18, 49: “caelum,Suet. Tit. 10: “summum de gurgite caelum,Ov. M. 11, 506: “astra,Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62: “ramos,Ov. M. 14, 660: “pisces qui neque videntur a nobis neque ipsi nos suspicere possunt,Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 81. —Poet.: nubes suspexit Olympus, looked up at, i. e. rose into the clouds, Luc. 6, 477: quae tuam matrem (i. e. Pleiadem) tellus a parte sinistrā Suspicit, which looks, i. e. is situated towards, Ov. M. 2, 840: “suspexit in caelum,Cic. Rep. 6, 9, 9; 3, 2, 3.—Absol.: “nec suspicit nec circumspicit,Cic. Div. 2, 34, 72: “formare vultus, respicientes, suspicientesque et despicientes,Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 56.—
B. Trop. *
1. In gen., to look up to a thing with the mind, to raise the thoughts up to: “nihil altum, nihil magnificum ac divinum suspicere possunt, qui, etc.,Cic. Lael. 9, 32.—
2. In partic., to look up to with admiration, to admire, respect, regard, esteem, honor, etc. (opp. despicere, Sen. Vit. Beat. 25; “syn. stupeo): eos viros suspiciunt maximisque efferunt laudibus, in quibus, etc.,Cic. Off. 2, 10, 36: “suspicit potentem humilis,Vell. 2, 126, 2; Suet. Claud. 28: “eloquentiam,Cic. Or. 28, 97: “naturam (with admirari),id. Div. 2, 72, 148: honores praemiaque vestra, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 2: “argentum et marmor vetus aeraque et artes,Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 18.—
II. To look at secretly or askance; hence, by meton. (effectus pro causā), to mistrust, suspect (perh. only in participles; and most freq. in the part. perf.): “Bomilcar suspectus regi et ipse eum suspiciens,Sall. J. 70, 1.—Hence, suspectus , a, um, P. a. (acc. to suspicio, II.), mistrusted, suspected; that excites suspicion.
2. Act., suspicious, distrustful: “timidi et suspecti,Cato, Dist. 4, 44; Amm. 29, 4, 5.
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