explore Copy link Outline 1. explōro, 1 (to search into and make known)2. indāgo, 1 (to track out, as hounds)3. scrūtor, perscrūtor, 1 • explore: 1. explōro, 1 (to search into and make known): he e.d Africa, Africam exploravit, Cic. Manil. 12, 34: to e. the coast of Africa, ambitum Africae ex., Plin. 5, 1 § 8: v. to reconnoitre. 2. indāgo, 1 (to track out, as hounds): to e. new paths (fig.), inusitatas vias in., Cic. Or. 3, 11. 3. scrūtor, perscrūtor, 1: v. to search out.
EXPLORE Copy link • EXPLOREPROPR., scrutari: perscrutari: pervestigare: odorari et pervestigare (like a hound); every corner, in omnibus latebris perreptare. IMPROPR., explorare: exquirere (to search out): pervestigare; indagare et pervestigare (to trace out accurately): perspicere (to see through, get to the bottom of a thing). (The words are found in this connection and order.) perspicere et explorare: rimari (to look, as it were, into every cranny of a subject; Cic.): ☞ explorare also of exploring a country (e.g., Africam, Cic.).