Viso, visis, visi, visum, visere, pen. cor. Teren. To goe or come to see: to see: to visite.Velim aliquando, quum erit tuum commodum. Lentul puerum visas. Cicero. Orbem peregrinum visere.Ouid.Regiam visere, Hor.Ego visam ad forum.Plaut.I will goe see what is done at the common place.Vise ad portum.Plaut.Go looke to the hauen.Viso ecquid eum ad virtutem, aut ad frugem opera sua cõpulerit.Plaut.Visam si do mi est. Ter. Vise redierítne iam, an nondum domum. Tere. Id viso túne, an illi insaniant. Ter. For that cause I come now to see, whether thou or they be mad. Viso iunctÛ cum Venio, aut Eo, is, significat Video. Plau. Nunc huc ad Veneris fanum venio visere.I come to see.-nostra ilico It visere ad eam: admisit nemo.Terent.By and by oure maist resse goeth to hir house to see, &c.Idem significat iunctum cum Gratia, Causa, Studio & huiusmodi. Tere. Ne mittas visendi causa quenquam. To see.Vndique visendi studio Troiana iuuentus Circumfusa ruit.Virg.The yong men of Troy come rÛning about on enerie side, of great desire to see. Vílitur, pen. cor. Passiuum Ci. Domus. Cn. Octauij vulgo visebatur. The people went commonly to see Ene. Octauins his house.
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vīso, si, sum, 3, v. freq. a. and n. [video], to look at attentively, to view, behold, survey (class.). I.Lit.: ludos nuptiales, Plaut. Cas. 5, 1, 2: ex muris visite agros vestros ferro inique vastatos, Liv. 3, 68, 2: praeda Macedonica omnis, ut viseretur, exposita, id. 45, 33, 5: ubi audiret potius contumelias inperatoris quam viseret, Tac. A. 14, 1.— Absol.: vise, specta tuo arbitratu, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 106: visendi causā venire, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 9: undigue visendi studio Trojana juventus Circumfusa ruit, Verg. A. 2, 63. —P. a.: visendus, to be seen, worth seeing: ornatus, Cic. Vatin. 13, 31: arbores visendae magnitudinis, Plin. 16, 44, 91, 242.—Pass.: nec civitas ulla visitur, is seen, i. e. exists, Amm. 16, 3, 1.—Subst.: vīsenda, ōrum, n., objects worth notice, sights: Athenae multa visenda habentes, Liv. 45, 27.—II.Transf.A.To go or come in order to look at, to see to, look after; constr. with acc., a rel.-clause, or ad.(a). With acc.: illa in arcem abivit, aedem visere Minervae, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 59; cf. id. Rud. 5, 1, 6: fit concursus per vias; Filios suos quisque visunt, id. Ep. 2, 2, 28.—(b). With rel.-clause: ego quid me velles, visebam, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 4; id. Mil. 3, 1, 113; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 60; Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 5 al.: visam si domi est, id. Heaut. 1, 1, 118; id. Eun. 3, 4, 7.—(g). With ad: vise ad portum, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 114: accensus dicit sic: omnes Quirites, inlicium visite huc ad judices, Varr. L. L. 6, 88 Müll.— B.To go to see, to visit any one, esp. a sick person (qs. to see how he is). (a). With acc.: constitui ad te venire, ut et viderem te et viserem et cenarem etiam, Cic. Fam. 9, 23: uxorem Pamphili, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 6 sq.: quae Paphon visit, Hor. C. 3, 28, 15: altos Visere montes, id. ib. 1, 2, 8 et saep.— Pass., of places: propter quem Thespiae visuntur,
is visited
, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 2, 4: Cn. Octavii domus cum vulgo viseretur, id. Off. 1, 39, 138.—(b). With ad: aegram esse simulant mulierem: nostra ilico It visere ad eam, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 114; cf.: L. Piso ap. Gell. 6, 9, 5; Lucr. 6, 1238; Ov. Am. 2, 2, 22.