gaze (v.) Copy link Outline 1. tueor, 2 (in this sense chiefly poet.)2. contemplor, 1 (strictly, to look at on all sides, attentively • gaze (v.): i. e. to look intently at: 1. tueor, 2 (in this sense chiefly poet.): she takes fire as she g.s, ardescit tuendo, Virg. Aen. 1, 713. So the comps. intueor, contueor (both in Cic.): v. to look at. 2. contemplor, 1 (strictly, to look at on all sides, attentively: esp. of the action of the mind): v. to survey, contemplate.
gaze (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. obtūtus, ūs (fixed, steady g.)2. conspectus, ūs • gaze (subs.): 1. obtūtus, ūs (fixed, steady g.): fixed in one g., ob. fixus in uno, Virg. Aen. 1, 495: the soul eludes the g. of the eyes, animus oculorum effugit ob., Cic. Tim. 8. 2. conspectus, ūs: v. look, sight.
GAZE Copy link • GAZE 1. v. To gaze at or upon anything, spectare: aspectare: contemplari, intueri, contueri aliquem or aliquid [SYN. in CONTEMPLATE]. To gaze steadily, etc., at anything, obtutum figere in aliqua re (Cic., N.D., 2, 24, but in poetry); defixis oculis intueri aliquid; defigere oculos in aliqua re (e.g., in vultu regis, Curt., ; in te, Ov. In Cic., it is only figuratively, in possessiones alicujus): oculos non movere or non dejicere a re: oculi habitant in re: admirari (to g at with admiration) [Vid: CONTEMPLATE]: ☞ quam maxime intentis oculis contemplari is used by Cic. with a quod aiunt; and IMPROP., totam causam cont., Flaccus, 11. 2. s. obtutus, ūs: obtutus oculorum (e.g., alicujus obtutus oculorum in cogitando, Cic., De Or., 3, 5; obtutum figere aliquo, N.D., 2, 24, is in poetry): conspectus (sight; mostly with reference to the presence of an object within anybody’s sphere of vision; to present itself to anybody’s gaze, dare se in conspectum alicui; to withdraw from anybody’s gaze, fugere e conspectu alicujus): aspectus (sight; e.g., to direct their gaze to any object they please, aspectum quo vellent... convertere). An eager and fixed gaze, acer et defixus aspectus (Auct., ad Her., 3, 15, 27). ☞ Intuitus is post-classical, and only in the sense of “respect.” In abies hilarior intuitu, others read in totum, Plin., 16, 10, 9. To fix one’s gaze on any object, oculos convertere ad aliquid [Vid: To GAZE AT]. Gazing-stock, Vid.