Inspectio, onis, f. g aliud Verbale. Colum. A beholding: an anersight or looking on: a viewing or considering: a seeing.Prima inspectione neque vitia, neque virtutes abditas ostédit. Col. At the first sight it sheweth, &c.Abstinere inspectione.Plin. iun.Not to behold or looke on.In inspectione positæ artes. Quin. Artes and sciences speculatiue, or consisting in speculation.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
inspectĭo, ōnis, f. [inspicio], a looking into, inspection (post-Aug.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: ager prima inspectione neque vitia, neque virtutes abditas ostendit, Col. 1, 4, 1: speculi non tam possessio culpatur quam inspectio, App. Mag. 13, p. 282, 4.— B. In partic., a looking through, examination: tabularum, Quint. 5, 5, 2; Dig. 29, 3, 2, 5: rationum, Trajan. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 57, 1.—II.Trop., consideration, investigation, contemplation; hence theory, in opposition to practice, Quint. 2, 18, 3; 2, 17, 42; Dig. 41, 1, 63, 3; 45, 1, 91, 4.