STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: σκοπέω

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σκοπ-έω,

used by early writers only in present and imperfect active and middle (see. below 11), the other tenses being supplied by σκέπτομαι (which see):—but in later writers we find future σκοπήσω, [[ Anonymus “Prog.” in Rhetores Graeci 1.615 W., 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 3.10 (_falsa lectio_), (ἐπι-) 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 103.8, (κατα-) 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐσκόπησα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 1 (προ-), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus “Fragmenta” 54 (assuming variant) (περι-), 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 12.28, etc.: and of ] Refs 4th c.BC+]middle, aorist ἐσκοπησάμην (περι-) [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.32: ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]perfect ἐσκόπημαι (προαν-) [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.5.6: (compare σκέπτομαι)] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—behold, contemplate (rather of particulars than of universals, of which θεωρέω is more commonly used, but οἱ τὸν ἥλιον ἐκλείποντα θεωροῦντες καὶ σκοπούμενοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99d), ἄστρον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.5; πλοῦν μὴ 'ξ ἀπόπτου μᾶλλον ἢ 'γγύθεν σκοπεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 467, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 490; τὰ πόρρω [prev. author] “Rh.” 482; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.14(17) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; examine, inspect, καταθεῖναί τι.. σκοπεῖν τῷ βουλομένῳ [[ “IG” 12(5).480 (Athenian law, 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. παραγραφάς [[ “PLips.” 38 ii 2 (4th c.AD): _absolutely_, ἄλλοσε σ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1474 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκοπεῖτε look out, watch, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 232, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]: followed by a clause, σ. ὅπου.. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 16; σ. ποῦ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.1, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: followed by a preposition, σ. εἰς.. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 812.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 305b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

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__2 metaphorically, look to or into, consider, examine, τὰ ἑωυτοῦ σ. look to one's own affairs, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8; τὸ σεαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 232d; τὸ ὑμέτερον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.8; καιρόν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.23; τὸ συμφέρον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 342b {σκοπή}; τὸ πρὸς ποσί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 130 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς νόμους πρὸς τοὺς τῇδε with reference to the laws here, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 24a; τι πρὸς ἐμαυτόν [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 9c: _absolutely_, σκοπῶν εὕρισκον ἴασιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 68, compare “Ph.” 282 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: followed by an accusative and interrogative clause, or μή.., σ. τὴν τελευτὴν κῇ ἀποβήσεται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 506, “OT” 407 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: followed by an interrogative clause alone, σ. πόθεν χρὴ ἄρξασθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.8; σ. εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 862a (_middle_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅπως.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes with genitive person as well as accusative or clause, σκόπει δὴ τόδε αὐτῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 182a; πρῶτον αὐτῶν ἐσκόπει πότερα.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: followed by a preposition, ἐξ ὧν ἀγγέλλουσι σκοποῦντες λογιεῖσθε τὰ εἰκότα [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36, compare 1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.13; πρὸς τὸ ἄρχειν σκοπῶν λογίζομαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.8; σ. τὰ λοιπὰ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτούς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.31; ἀνομολογούμενοι πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348b; τόδε περὶ αὐτοῦ [prev. work] 351b, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ὀρθολογίαν περί τι [[ [prev. author] “Sph.” 239b: with ] Refs] adverb, absolutely, ὀρθῶς σ[[. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 155; καιρίως [prev. author] “Rh.” 339; ἄμεινον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]