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Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary New Search e-mail us | copyright statement. If you would not be reading Latin without access to these on-line texts and lexicon, please tell us about it. This page was made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Previous: specimen specio Next: speciose Corpus Words Max. Inst. Freq./10K Min. Inst. Freq./10K Latin Texts 3405121 238 0.70 2 0.01 Click on a number in the Max. Inst. column to search for this word in that group of texts. Click on a number in the Freq./10K column for a more detailed frequency table. specio (spicio, v. infra), spexi, 3, v. a. [Sanscr. spac-, see; Gr. skep-tomai, skopos; Lat.: specto, speculum, etc.], to look, look at, behold (ante-class.): quod nos cum praepositione dicimus aspicio apud veteres sine praepositione spicio dicebatur, Fest. s. v. auspicium, p. 2 Müll.: spectare dictum ab specio antiquo, quo etiam Ennius usus: vos epulo postquam spexit, et quod in auspiciis distributum est, qui habent spectionem, qui non habeant; et quod in auguriis etiam nunc augures dicunt avem specere ... Speculum, quod in eo specimus imaginem, etc., Varr. L. L. 6, § 82 Müll. (Vahl. has restored the verse of Ennius, Ann. 402, in this way: quos ubi rex populos spexit de cantibus celsis; cf. infra, Fest. p. 330 Müll.); cf.: posteaquam avim de templo Anchisa spexit, Naev. B. Pun. 1, 10: spicit quoque sine praepositione dixerunt antiqui. Plautus (Mil. 3, 1, 100): flagitium est, si nihil mittetur, quo supercilio spicit. Et spexit, Ennius, l. VI.: quos ubi rex ... spexit de montibu' celsis, Fest. p. 330 Müll.; cf. Cato ib. s. v. spiciunt, p. 344: nunc specimen specitur, nunc certamen cernitur, Plaut. Cas. 3.1.2; id. Bacch. 3.2.15: nisi mihi credis, spece, id. Truc. 5.8.