prospect Copy link Outline I. View of things within reach of the eyeII. Anticipation of the future • prospect: I. View of things within reach of the eye: prospectus, ūs (to be used with caution): he scans the whole p.: omnem p. petit (oculis), Virg. Aen. 1, 181: (a house) with a fine p., pulcherrimo p., Auct. pro dom. 44, 116. (But the word denotes strictly, out-look or power of seeing to a distance, not the scene itself which the eye surveys.) Usu. better expr. by prospĭcio, 3: the dining-room commands a wide p. of the sea, coenatio latissimum mare p., Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 12: Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 23. Or frequent. prospecto, 1: a place commanding a wide p., locus late prospectans, Tac. H. 3, 60: Phaedr. Phr.: to block up any one's p. (build before his lights), luminibus alicujus obstruere, Auct. pro dom. 44, 115. II. Anticipation of the future: spes, ĕi, f. (may be used of evil as well as of good): actual circumstances bad, p.s far worse, mala res, spes multo asperior, Sall. Cat. 20. but much more freq. of good: there is not even a p. of improvement, ne s. quidem ulla ostenditur fore melius, Cic. Att. 11, 11: to afford a p. of ..., spem afferre ut ..., id. Am. 19, 68.
PROSPECT Copy link • PROSPECTPROP., prospectus (to a distance in front): despectus (looking down): conspectus (a view). To have a prospect of anything, prospicere, prospectare, despicere aliquem locum: to afford a prospect to any place, praebere prospectum ad aliquem locum: there is a prospect to the Capitol, conspectus est in Capitolium: there is a clear prospect even to a great distance, liber prospectus oculorum etiam quae procul recessere, permittitur (Curt., 5, 9, 10): this room commands a prospect of the sea, hoc cubiculum prospicit mare, or praebet prospectum ad mare: the fish-pond of which there is a prospect from the windows, piscina quae fenestris servit ac subjacet: to have a distant prospect, longe or multum prospicere: to hinder the prospect, prospectum impedire or prohibere: to take away the prospect, prospectum adimere; prospectum oculorum auferre (e.g., as a cloud of dust): to take away one’s prospect of anything, conspectum alicujus rei intersepire alicui: to deprive of a prospect, prospectum oculis eripere (Verg., Aen., 8, 254; for which Liv., 10, 32, in more prosaic style, says, usum lucis eripere, of a cloud): to intercept or to take away the prospect, caelo, or luminibus, or auspiciis officere (the latter from persons about to take the auspices: ☞ officere alicui in this sense it not classical: it is not supported by Cic., Tusc., 5, 32, 92, and De N.D., 2, 19, 50). Figuratively, That to which the mind is directed, spes (of anything pleasing): exspectatio (of anything, whether pleasing or not): prospect of punishment, exspectatio poenarum: some prospect, specula: distant prospects, sera spes: charming prospects, spes uberior: to have good prospects, bene sperare: to deprive one of all prospect of anything, omnem spem alicujus rei alicui eripere: merit now has some prospects, locus virtutibus patefactus est: in peace I have no prospects, mihi compositis rebus nulla spes (Tac., Hist., 1, 21, 1): to have a very distant prospect of the consulship, longe a spe consulatus abesse: the prospects of the country are gloomy [Vid: GLOOMY], tenebrae caecaeque nubes et procellae reipublicae impendent (after Auct., pro Dom., 10, 24): still more gloomy prospects, spes multo asperior.