σκέπ-τομαι,
[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.652, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1095 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], and Ionic dialect, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.37, +others, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 2, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but Attic dialect writers (before [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus)] Refs 4th c.BC+] hardly ever have the present and imperfect σκέπτομαι, ἐσκεπτόμην (except [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 185b, Alcaeus2.140a; in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.66 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Bauer restored pluperfect προὔσκεπτο), but use σκοπῶ or σκοποῦμαι as present, and take the other tenses from σκέπτομαι, future σκέψομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 29, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.40, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; aorist ἐσκεψάμην [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 229, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1028, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 206 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.38, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; perfect ἔσκεμμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 147, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 24, etc.: compare σκοπέω:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —but the perfect is used also in passive sense, as also some other tenses, see below [[ 11.4. ] Refs]
__I look about carefully, spy, σκεψάμενος δ᾽ ἐς νῆα θοὴν ἅμα καὶ μεθ᾽ ἑταίρους [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.247; so σκέψασθε δ᾽ ἐς τόνδ᾽ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 943: with _accusative_, σκέπτετ᾽ ὀϊστῶν τε ῥοῖζον καὶ δοῦπον ἀκόντων] Refs 8th c.BC+] he looked after the whistling of the darts (so as to shun them), [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.361; σκέπτεο δὴ νῦν ἄλλον 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1095; σκεπτόμενος τοὺς νεκρούς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.37 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκέψαι.. βόστρυχον τριχός look well at it, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 229; τὴν ἔγχελυν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 889; κλόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 206 (Lyric poetry); τὰ ἔνδον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.4.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τιν᾽ ἐς δὲ μωρίαν ἐσκεμμένοι looking into you and seeing.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 147 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: followed by an Interrog., σκέπτεο νῦν.., αἴ κεν ἴδηαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.652; σ. πόθεν ἡ στάσις, ἢ τίς ὁ θρύλλος Batrachomyomachia 135; τί εἴη τὸ κωλῦον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.20; εἰ εἴη ἴχνη ἀνθρώπων [prev. work] 7.3.42 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, look at, examine, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.196 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκέψασθε, παῖδες look, lads! [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 419. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]