1. σκοπέω · skopeō — Beekes
σκοπέω, σκοπιά, σκοπός -᾿σκέπτομαι. σκορακίζω —xKdpak. — [Beekes, s.v. σκοπέω, p. 1409]
The corpus record
σκοπ-έω
skopeo
σκοπιά, σκοπός -᾿σκέπτομαι
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
What it meant
2. σκοπ-έω · skop-eō — LSJ
behold, contemplate, examine, inspect, look out, watch
behold, contemplate (rather of particulars than of universals, of which θεωρέω is more commonly used, but οἱ τὸν ἥλιον ἐκλείποντα θεωροῦντες καὶ σκοπούμενοι Pl. Phd. 99d), ἄστρον Pi. O. 1.5; πλοῦν μὴ ʼξ ἀπόπτου μᾶλλον ἢ ʼγγύθεν σκοπεῖν S. Ph. 467, cf. E. IA 490; τὰ πόρρω Id. Rh. 482; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν X. An. 6.3.14(17); examine, inspect, καταθεῖναί τι . . σκοπεῖν τῷ βουλομένῳ IG 12(5).480 (Athenian law, v B.C.); σ. παραγραφάς PLips. 38 ii 2 (iv A.D.): abs., ἄλλοσε σ. S. El. 1474; σκοπεῖτε look out,
2 look to, into, consider, examine, look to
metaph., look to or into, consider, examine, τὰ ἑωυτοῦ σ. look to oneʼs own affairs, Hdt. 1.8; τὸ σεαυτοῦ Pl. Phdr. 232d; τὸ ὑμέτερον Antipho 4.2.8; καιρόν Th. 4.23; τὸ συμφέρον Pl. R. 342bsq.; τὸ πρὸς ποσί S. OT 130; τοὺς νόμους πρὸς τοὺς τῇδε with reference to the laws here, Pl. Ti. 24a; τι πρὸς ἐμαυτόν Id. Euthphr. 9c: abs., σκοπῶν εὕρισκον ἴασιν S. OT 68, cf. Ph. 282: folld. by an acc. and interrog. clause, or μή . . , σ. τὴν τελευτὴν κῇ ἀποβήσεται Hdt. 1.32, cf. S. Ph. 506, OT 407: folld. b
3 look out for
look out for, παῦλαν X. An. 5.7.32; τι ἀγαθόν Id. Hier. 9.10; νεώσοικον Ar. Ach. 96; ἐσκόπει γυναῖκά μοι Is. 2.18, cf. D. Ep. 2.11; σ. ὄνομα κάλλιον αὐτῇ Plu. Bruta anim. 2.991f.
II
Med., used like Act. I.1 (perh. implying a more deliberate consideration), c. acc., E. IT 68, Hel. 1537; τένοντʼ ἐς ὀρθὸν ὄμμασι σκοπουμένη Id. Med. 1166.
2
= I.2, S. OT 964; σ. τύχας βροτῶν E. Fr. 262: folld. by relat., σ. τίνι τρόπῳ . . Pl. Smp. 176b, cf. Th. 8.48: περί τινος Pl. Prt. 353a, X. Hier. 1.10: abs., ἔνεστι τοῖσιν εὖ σκοπουμένοις ταρβεῖν . . S. Tr. 296.
3
= I.3, ὅτανπερ ἀδικεῖν ἐπιχειρῶσιν, ἅμα καὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν σκοποῦνται Isoc. 21.17.
III considering and being considered, in the very matter considered
rarely in Pass., σκοπῶν καὶ σκοπούμενος ὑπʼ ἄλλων considering and being considered, Pl. Lg. 772d; ὁ λόγος . . αἰσχρὸς τοῖς σκοπουμένοις is disgraceful in the very matter considered, D. 20.54 (s.v.l., τοῖς σ. secl. Dobree).
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
Downloads
Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)
CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable