I.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.
(α).
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.—
(β).
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.—
(γ).
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).
(α).
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.—
(β).
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.
