1. vīso — Lewis & Short
vīso, si, sum, 3, v. freq. a. and n.video,
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.
(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.