To see farre: to foresee: to prouide: to beware. To see: to looke or see to: to prouide or shift for: to see and prouide a remedie against that might else haue chanced. Parum oculi prospieiunt. Terentius. Mine eies be not very cleare of sight: I do scant see from me. Prospicit tergo. Ouid. Ab rupe prospicere. Virg. To stande on a rocke and looke. Ad agentem ex turba prospexit. Quintil. Hee beeing in the throng or companie, looked towarde him doing, &c. Ex specula prospicere. Cic. Facilè erat ex castris. C. Trebonij prospicere in vrbÊ. Cæsa. A man might easily looke out of Trebonius campe into the citie. Prospicere per vmbram. Virg. To see thorough the shadowe or darke. Nec oculis prospicio satis. Plaut. Mine eies do not serue me well. Prospicere. Terentius. To foresee: to take heede: to beeware, &c. Futura prospiciunt. Cic. In annum prospicere. Var. To foresee or prouide for an yere before. Profpicere in posterum. Cicero. To prouide for the time to come. Longe in posterum futura prospicere. Cic. In dextrum prospicere. Quint. Rightly to foresee. Prospicere animo. Cic. In minde to foresee. Longè animo prospicere. Cic. Prospicere mente & cogitatione. Cic. In minde and consiveration to foresee. Coniectura aliquid prospicere. Cicer. To coniecture that a thing will come to passe. Prospicere multò antè. Cic. Longè prospicere futuros casus. Cic. Insidias prospicere. Cic. Propè infinitum mihi laborem prospicio. Quint. I do foresee, that my paine will be almost infinite. Prospicere senectutem. Senec. To be nigh to olde age to be almost an old man. Prospicere sibi, alicui, saluti suæ. Terent. Cicer. To see to: to prouide for. Quem si excideris, multum prospexeris. Cicero. You shall muche prouide for the matter. Qui sedem senectuti vestræ prospiciunt. Li. Which prouide for you to haue a quiet habitation or resting place in your age. Alicui malo prospicere. Cicero. To prouide for a mischiefe that it come not. Consulere filijs ac prospicere. Cic. Patriæ prospicere. Cicer. To looke or see to the safegarde of our conntrie. Rationibus alicuius quibuscunq; rebus prospicere & consulere. Cic. Nisi prospectum interea aliquid nobis est, desertæ viuimus. Terent. Vnlesse that we be in the meane time somewhat prouided for.

I. Neutr., to look forward or into the distance, to look out, to look, see (class.).

A. In gen.: neque post respiciens, neque ante prospiciens, Varr. ap. Non. 443, 2: parum prospiciunt oculi, do not see well, Ter. Phorm. 5, 1, 8; Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 38: grues volant ad prospiciendum alte, Plin. 10, 23, 30, 58: ex superioribus locis prospicere in urbem, Caes. B. C. 2, 5: multum, to have an extensive prospect, Cic. Fam. 7, 20, 1: per umbram, Verg. A. 2, 733: procul, id. ib. 12, 353: ex moenibus, Hor. C. 3, 2, 8: longe lateque, Auct. B. Hisp. 8.—

B. In partic.

1. To look out, to watch, be on the watch: puer ab januā prospiciens, Nep. Hann. 12, 4: pavorem simulans (feles) prospexit toto die, Phaedr. 2, 4, 20: Michol prospiciens per fenestram, Vulg. 2 Reg. 6, 16; cf. Ambros. Off. 2, 29, 46.—

2. To look or see to beforehand, to exercise foresight, to look out for, take care of, provide for any thing: ego jam prospiciam mihi, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 50: consulere ac prospicere debemus, ut, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 58, 133: prospicite atque consulite, id. ib. 2, 1, 8, 22: ut prospicias et consulas rationibus meis, id. Fam. 3, 2, 1: consulite vobis, prospicite patriae, id. Cat. 4, 2, 3: homo longe in posterum prospiciens, id. Fam. 2, 8, 1: ut illum intellegatis non longe animo prospexisse morientem, id. Clu. 12, 34: prospicite, ut, etc., id. Font. 17, 39: statuebat prospiciendum, ne, etc., Caes. B. G. 5, 7: in annum, Varr. R. R. 1, 23, 3.—Impers. pass.: senatusconsulto prospectum est, ne, etc., Paul. Sent. 4, 2.— Absol.: malo nos prospicere quam ulcisci, Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 24: plagae crescunt, Nisi prospicis, id. Phorm. 5, 2, 17.—

II. Act., to see afar off, to discern, descry, espy.

A. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Italiam summā ab undā, Verg. A. 6, 357: campos Prospexit longe, id. ib. 11, 909; Hor. C. 3, 25, 10: moenia urbis Tarpeiā de rupe, Luc. 1, 195: ex speculis adventantem hostium classem, Liv. 21, 49, 8: ut hostium agmen inde prospicerent, Curt. 3, 8, 26: ex edito monte cuncta, id. 7, 6, 4.—

b. Transf., of situations, to have or command a view of, look or lie towards, to overlook: domus prospicit agros, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 23: cenatio latissimum mare, amoenissimas villas prospicit, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 12; Plin. 5, 16, 15, 72; Phaedr. 2, 5, 10: freta prospiciens Tmolus, Ov. M. 11, 150; 8, 330.—

c. Trop.: aliquis infans decessit, cui nihil amplius contigit quam prospicere vitam, to see life from a distance, to get a glimpse of, Sen. Ep. 66, 42: turpe est seni aut prospicienti senectutem, etc., one who sees old age before him, id. ib. 33, 7: neque prospexisse castra, i. e. life in camp, Plin. Pan. 15, 2.—

B. In partic.

1. To look at attentively, to gaze at (very rare): aliquem propter aliquid, Nep. Dat. 3, 3.—

2. To foresee a thing (class.): multo ante, tamquam ex aliquā speculā, prospexi tempestatem futuram, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, 1; cf.: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae, id. Lael. 12, 40; id. Dom. 5, 12: multum in posterum, id. Mur. 28, 59: ex imbri soles, Verg. G. 1, 393. —With rel.-clause: ut jam ante animo prospicere possis, quibus de rebus auditurus sis, Cic. Quint. 10, 35; id. Div. in Caecil. 13, 42.—

3. To look out for, provide, procure: habitationem alicui, Petr. 10: sedem senectuti, Liv. 4, 49 fin.: maritum filiae, Plin. Ep. 1, 14, 1.—In pass.: nisi si prospectum interea aliquid est, desertae vivimus, Ter. Heaut. 2, 4, 11: commeatus a praetore prospectos in hiemem habere, Liv. 44, 16: ad ferramenta prospicienda, Cic. Sull. 19, 55.—Hence,

A. prōspĭcĭ-ens, entis, P. a., endowed with foresight, Gell. 2, 29, 1.—

B. prōspĭcĭenter, adv., providently, considerately, carefully (post-class.): res prospicienter animadversas, Gell. 2, 29, 1.—

C. prōspectē, adv., providently, deliberately, considerately, advisedly, prudently (post-class.): decernere, Tert. Apol. 6.—Sup.: adhaerebit bono, Aug. Ep. ad Maced. 55.