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Meaning of prospiciens | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

watching, seeing, gazing at or on, looking out or forth, beholding

declension-3, form-of, one-termination, participle, present

Examples

“… et altō prōspiciēns, summā placidum caput extulit undā.”

… and gazing outward over the deep, [Neptune] raised his peaceful face above the waves. (Neptune (mythology) appears calm despite his inner concern about the destructive storm at sea. The inverted order of events, or hysteron proteron, has Neptune “gazing”/“prospiciens” before he is “raised”/“extulit” above the water.)

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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