vīso, si, sum, 3, v. freq. a. and n. [video], 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: undique 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. 445 al.: visam si domi est, id. Heaut. 170; id. Eun. 545.—
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. 341 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. 189; cf.: L. Piso ap. Gell. 6, 9, 5; Lucr. 6, 1238; Ov. Am. 2, 2, 22.