Contemplation: beholbing in the mind vt contemplatio rerum occultiorum. Cic. Consyderatio contemplatióque naturæ. Cic. Consideration and musing vpon the workes of nature. Frui sui contemplatione. Quint. Dare pecuniam alicuius coucemplatione. Iulian. To giue money for ones sake or in regarde of him. Gerere negotia asicuins, non couremplatione eius, sed sui lucri causa. Iulianus. Not in regarde of. Arborum contemplatione fundum coinparare. Papinian. To buy a ground for the trees that is in it. Contemplatio. Deepe cogitation. Plin. iun. Totus animus in hacvoa contemplatione defixus est.

I. Physical.

A. In gen.: caeli, Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93: injecit contemplationem super umeros, cast a look over, Petr. 12, 4.—

B. In partic., an aiming with a weapon, a taking aim: sagittis praecipuā contemplatione utantur, Plin. 6, 30, 35, 194; cf. contemplabilis.—

II. Mental.

A. In gen., a contemplation, survey: est animorum ingeniorumque naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturae, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127: rerum naturae, Cels. 1 praef.: ipsius naturae, Quint. 3, 6, 86; in plur.: naturae, Gell. 20, 5, 3: recti pravique, Quint. 2, 4, 20: veri, id. 6, 2, 5: iniqui, id. 12, 1, 35: rerum, scripti, id. 3, 6, 89: sui, id. 2, 18, 4: virtutum, Tac. Agr. 46: publicae felicitatis, Curt. 10, 9, 7: summa vis infinitatis et magnā ac diligenti contemplatione dignissima est, Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 50; so absol., id. ib. 1, 12, 18; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 12.—Hence,

B. In partic., a consideration, regard (mostly late Lat.; freq. in the jurists): liberorum, Just. 7, 5, 7: justitiae ejus, id. 8, 3, 14: personarum, Dig. 2, 15, 8; 3, 5, 5; 18, 1, 58; Inscr. Orell. 3161 et saep.: contemplatione mortis donatio facta, = mortis causā, Paul. Sent. 2, 23, 6.