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perspecto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. [perspicio].

  1. * I. To look at or behold to the end: quinquennale certamen gymnicum perspectavit, Suet. Aug. 98.
  2. II. To look through, look all about: otiose perspecta aedis, ut lubet, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 128.