A.“σκέψομαι” Ar.Pax 29, Th.6.40, etc.; aor. “ἐσκεψάμην” A.Ch.229, S.Aj.1028, E.Ion 206 (lyr.), Th.6.38, etc.; pf. “ἔσκεμμαι” E.Heracl.147, Hp.VM24, etc.: cf. σκοπέω:—but the pf. is used also in pass. sense, as also some other tenses, v. infr. 11.4.
I. look about carefully, spy, “σκεψάμενος δ᾽ ἐς νῆα θοὴν ἅμα καὶ μεθ᾽ ἑταίρους” Od. 12.247; so “σκέψασθε δ᾽ ἐς τόνδ᾽” E.Hipp.943: c. acc., σκέπτετ᾽ ὀϊστῶν τε ῥοῖζον καὶ δοῦπον ἀκόντων he looked after the whistling of the darts (so as to shun them), Il.16.361; “σκέπτεο δὴ νῦν ἄλλον” Thgn.1095; “σκεπτόμενος τοὺς νεκρούς” Hdt.3.37; σκέψαι . . βόστρυχον τριχός look well at it, A.Ch.229; “τὴν ἔγχελυν” Ar.Ach.889; “κλόνον” E.Ion206 (lyr.); “τὰ ἔνδον” X.HG4.4.8; τιν᾽ ἐς δὲ μωρίαν ἐσκεμμένοι looking into you and seeing . . , E.Heracl.147: folld. by an Interrog., “σκέπτεο νῦν . ., αἴ κεν ἴδηαι” Il.17.652; “ς. πόθεν ἡ στάσις, ἢ τίς ὁ θρύλλος” Batr.135; “τί εἴη τὸ κωλῦον” X.An.4.5.20; εἰ εἴη ἴχνη ἀνθρώπων ib.7.3.42: abs., look at, examine, Hdt.4.196; σκέψασθε, παῖδες look, lads! Ar.Eq.419.
II. later of the mind, view, examine, consider, “σκέψασθε . . τὴν τύχην δυοῖν βροτοῖν” S.Aj.1028; “σκέψαι δὲ τοῦτο πρῶτον” Id.OT584; “ὃ πολλάκις ἐσκεψάμην” Th.6.38, etc.; “τὸ δίκαιον” E.Or.494; μηδὲν ἐσκέφθαι δίκ. D.21.192; “πρὸς ἑαυτόν τι” Pl.Phd.95e; ἐκ τῶνδε σκέψαι from these facts, X.Mem.2.6.38, cf. D.2.17; “περί τινος” Pl.La.185c, Cra.401a; σκέψασθαι ἀπὸ τῶν παίδων judge by what children do, Ar.Pl.576; “ἐν σοὶ σκεψώμεθα” Pl.Sph. 239b: abs., “σκέψασθέ νυν ἄμεινον” E.Or.1291; “σκεψώμεθα δή” Ar.Th. 802; σκέψασθε δέ: only consider, to call people's attention to a point, Antipho 6.41, Th.1.143: folld. by a clause with οἷος, ὁποῖος, ὡς, A. Pr.1014, S.Tr.1077, E.IA1377, etc.; by ὅτῳ τρόπῳ, Th.1.107; by πῶς . ., πόθεν . ., πότερον . . ἤ . . , X.An.4.5.22, 5.4.7, 3.2.20, etc.; by εἰ, consider whether or no, S.El.442, Ar.Pax 29, Eq.1141, X.An.3.2.22; in full, “ς. τοῦτο, εἰ . . ” S.OT584; “τί ἐστιν ἡ ἀρετὴ σκεπτόμεθα” Arist.EN1103b28.
2. rarely, think or deem a thing to be so and so, “καλλίω θάνατον σκεψάμενος” Pl.Lg.854c.
3. think of beforehand, provide, “σκεπτόμεθα τἀναγκαῖ᾽ ἑκάστης ἡμέρας” Philem.120; “τὸ συμφέρον” Pl.R.342a; prepare, premeditate, “λόγους” D.24.158; “εἴ τι χρήσιμον ἐσκεμμένος ἥκει” Id.1.1: c. inf., plan, Th.8.63.
4. pf. in pass. sense, πάντα ἐσκεμμένα ἡτοίμασται with consideration, Id.7.62; σκοπεῖτε οὖν. Answ. “ἔσκεπται” Pl.R.369b, cf. X.HG3.3.8, D.21.191, 61.7: also 3 fut. Pass. “ἐσκέψεται” Pl.R.392c; aor. ἐσκέφθην, ες τὸ σκεφθῆναι for observation, Hp.de Arte 11; aor. 2 and fut. 2 ἐσκέπην （ἐπ-）, σκεπήσομαι （ἐπι-), LXX Nu.1.19, 1 Ki.20.18.
