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  • Compounds of _specere_ (the simple verb is used by Plautus and Ennius) are peculiarly liable to confusion: _prospicere_ is similarly corrupted to _aspicere_ in some manuscripts at _Met_ III 603-4 'ipse quid aura mihi tumulo promittat ab alto/_prospicio_' and _Met_ XI 715-16 'notata locis reminiscitur acta fretumque/_prospicit_', and other instances of variation of prefix will be found at _Met_ II 405, VI 343, XI 150, XIV

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Et cum senescente mundo paulatim natura humana fiat imbecillior, convenit prospicere, ne plura vitia serpant in Germaniam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Et cum senescente mundo paulatim natura humana fiat imbecillior, convenit prospicere, ne plura vitia serpant in Germaniam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Volentes igitur in hac parse prospicere Christianis, ne a Judaeis immaniter aggraventur, synodali decreto statuimus, ut, si de caetero quocunque praetextu Judaaei a Christianis graves immoderatasve usuras extorserint, Christianorum eis participium subtrahatur, donec de immoderato gravamine satisfecerint competenter ....

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • _Perinde principis est curare salutem animarum, ac ejusdem est saluti corporum prospicere: non est autem principis providere ne morbi grassentur directe, esset enim medicus, at indirecte tamen princeps id studere debet.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • O wisedome imperiall, most diligently to be imitated, _videlicet, prospicere_, to foresee.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

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