ASPECT Copy link • ASPECT 1. look, aspectus [aspectus laetus, horridus, deformis turpisque]: visus (not visum): species: forma: facies (outward appearance, form: forma also of beautiful appearance: all five both of livingand lifeless things): os (with reference to the whole form of the face): vultus (with reference to the countenance). Look (active); act of beholding, aspectus. Direction (of local position): circumlocution by specto (mostly with ad, in), less frequently aspecto with accusative. To have an eastern aspect, ad orientem solem spectare. The situation and aspect of a villa are of great importance, permagni est, ubi sit posita villa, quo spectet (porticibus, ostiis ac fenestris, Varr.). Situation or prospect of affairs: status: conditio: locus: temporum ratio, or tempora, or res only, or a neuter adjective: the aspect of things is brighter, omnia jam hilariora sunt: the aspect of my affairs is brighter, res meae meliore loco sunt: is darker, res meae sunt minus secundae; deteriore sum statu: the aspect of things is much changed, magna facta est rerum commutatio; versa sunt omnia: the unfavorable or threatening aspect of the times, iniquitas rerum or temporum. Aspect of the stars, aspectus (siderum, Plin.): positus ac spatia siderum (Tac.): positura stellarum (Gell.). 2. v. aspectare: spectare.