prospect
prospect
subs.
View: P. and V. ὄψῐς, ἡ.
Range of view: P. ἔποψις, ἡ.
Spectacle: P. and V. θέα, ἡ, θέᾱμα, τό, ὄψῐς, ἡ, V. πρόσοψις, ἡ ; see view.
Expectation: P. προσδοκία, ἡ, P. and V. ἐλπί̆ς, ἡ.
Ruin one’s prospects: P. διαφθείρειν τὰ πράγματα.
subs.
View: P. and V. ὄψῐς, ἡ.
Range of view: P. ἔποψις, ἡ.
Spectacle: P. and V. θέα, ἡ, θέᾱμα, τό, ὄψῐς, ἡ, V. πρόσοψις, ἡ ; see view.
Expectation: P. προσδοκία, ἡ, P. and V. ἐλπί̆ς, ἡ.
Ruin one’s prospects: P. διαφθείρειν τὰ πράγματα.
PROSPECT
PROP. 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 Cic. Dom. 10 24): still more gloomy prospects spes multo asperior.
PROP. 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 Cic. Dom. 10 24): still more gloomy prospects spes multo asperior.
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-lookor 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.
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
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.