1. σκέπτομαι · skeptomai — Beekes
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σκέπτομαι
skeptomai
to look around, look back, spy, contemplate, consider, survey
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- Bel et Draco (LXX) 1 · 11.9/10k
Densest 12 of 148 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. σκήπτομαι · skēptomai — Beekes
3. σκέπτομαι · skeptomai — Chantraine
4. σκήπτομαι · skēptomai — Chantraine
5. σκέπτομαι · skeptomai — Frisk
6. σκήπτομαι · skēptomai — Frisk
7. σκέπτομαι · skeptomai — Frisk
8. σκήπτομαι · skēptomai — Frisk
9. σκέπ-τομαι · skep-tomai — LSJ
look about carefully, spy, σκεψάμενος δʼ ἐς νῆα θοὴν ἅμα καὶ μεθʼ ἑταίρους Od. 12.247; so σκέψασθε δʼ ἐς τόνδʼ E. Hipp. 943: c. acc., σκέπτετʼ ὀϊστῶν τε ῥοῖζον καὶ δοῦπον ἀκόντων he looked after the whistling of the darts (so as to shun them), Il. 16.361; σκέπτεο δὴ νῦν ἄλλον Thgn. 1095; σκεπτόμενος τοὺς νεκρούς Hdt. 3.37; σκέψαι . . βόστρυχον τριχός look well at it, A. Ch. 229; τὴν ἔγχελυν Ar. Ach. 889; κλόνον E. Ion 206 (lyr.); τὰ ἔνδον X. HG 4.4.8; τινʼ ἐς σὲ μωρίαν ἐσκεμμένοι looking into y
examine, τῷ δακτύλῳ τι Hp. Nat.Mul. 7.
later of the mind, view, examine, consider, σκέψασθε . . τὴν τύχην δυοῖν βροτοῖν S. Aj. 1028; σκέψαι δὲ τοῦτο πρῶτον Id. OT 584; ὃ πολλάκις ἐσκεψάμην Th. 6.38, etc.; τὸ δίκαιον E. Or. 494; μηδὲν ἐσκέφθαι δίκ. D. 21.192; πρὸς ἑαυτόν τι Pl. Phd. 95e; ἐκ τῶνδε σκέψαι from these facts, X. Mem. 2.6.38, cf. D. 2.17; περί τινος Pl. La. 185c, Cra. 401a; σκέψασθαι ἀπὸ τῶν παίδων judge by what children do, Ar. Pl. 576; ἐν σοὶ σκεψώμεθα Pl. Sph. 239b: abs., σκέψασθέ νυν ἄμεινον E. Or. 1291; σκεψώμεθα δή Ar
rarely, think or deem a thing to be so and so, καλλίω θάνατον σκεψάμενος Pl. Lg. 854c.
think of beforehand, provide, σκεπτόμεθα τἀναγκαῖʼ ἑκάστης ἡμέρας Philem. 120; τὸ συμφέρον Pl. R. 342a; prepare, premeditate, λόγους D. 24.158; εἴ τι χρήσιμον ἐσκεμμένος ἥκει Id. 1.1: c. inf., plan, Th. 8.63.
pf. in pass. sense, πάντα ἐσκεμμένα ἡτοίμασται with consideration, Id. 7.62; σκοπεῖτε οὖν. Answ. ἔσκεπται Pl. R. 369b, cf. X. HG 3.3.8, D. 21.191, 61.7: also 3 fut. Pass. ἐσκέψεται Pl. R. 392c; aor. ἐσκέφθην, ες τὸ σκεφθῆναι for observation, Hp. de Arte 11; aor. 2 and fut. 2 ἐσκέπην (ἐπ-) , σκεπήσομαι (ἐπι-), LXX Nu. 1.19, 1 Ki. 20.18.
In the wild
- σκέψαι · skepsai Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 230
- σκέψαι · skepsai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1014–1019
- σκέψασθε · skepsasthe Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 678)
- σκέψαι · skepsai Aristophanes, Clouds 1440 (DIORISIS sentence 1113)
- σκέψαι · skepsai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 1101)
- σκέψαι · skepsai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 338)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σκέπτομαι (scan pp. 1398-1399; entry #5577). Root candidates: *spek-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σκέπτομαι (scan pp. 1034-1035; entry #7322).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σκέπτομαι (scan pp. 1697-1698; entry #5188). Root candidates: *spaha-, *spöko-.
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