• SPY

1. s. explorator (a professed spy, especially in war; one who examines everything closely on the spot, and reports it to his party): speculator (a scout; one who observes or watches anything from a high ground at a distance): emissarius (one who is sent out by another, whose creature he is): excursor (one who runs far out to espy). (The words are found in this connection and order.) excursor et emissarius (e.g., istius excursor et emissarius, Cic.): delator (one who endeavors to detect dangerous political opinions, etc., and report the holders of them to the magistrates; a police spy). A female spy, speculatrix.

2. v. explorare: speculari. To spy into, introspicere: to spy out, perspicere: pervidere.