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servātor (noun M) : id..
* One who gives attention to any thing, a watcher, observer: Olympi,Luc. 8, 171: cruentus Bebrycii nemoris,watcher, prowler,Stat. Th. 3, 352.
* Pregn., a preserver, deliverer, savior (the prevailing signif. of the word; class.): Ba. An tu veneficus? Co. Immo edepol vero hominum servator magis, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 84: rei publicae (opp. perditor),Cic. Planc. 36, 89; patriae,Liv. 6, 17; cf.: Romulidarum arcis servator, candidus anser,Lucr. 4, 683 Müll.: mei capitis,Cic. Planc. 42, 102: mundi,Prop. 4 (5), 6, 37. salutis,Ov. P. 4, 15, 41.—Absol.: servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus,Liv. 34, 50 fin.: si servasti me non ideo servator es,Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 8; Servator, like the Gr. Σωτήρ, an epithet of Jupiter, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 74; Inscr. Grut. 18, 6.
* With abstr. objects, an observer, fulfiller of any duty (poet.); rigidi honesti,Luc. 2, 389; cf. foederis,Claud. B. Get. 496.
* One who gives attention to any thing, a watcher, observer: Olympi,Luc. 8, 171: cruentus Bebrycii nemoris,watcher, prowler,Stat. Th. 3, 352.
* Pregn., a preserver, deliverer, savior (the prevailing signif. of the word; class.): Ba. An tu veneficus? Co. Immo edepol vero hominum servator magis, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 84: rei publicae (opp. perditor),Cic. Planc. 36, 89; patriae,Liv. 6, 17; cf.: Romulidarum arcis servator, candidus anser,Lucr. 4, 683 Müll.: mei capitis,Cic. Planc. 42, 102: mundi,Prop. 4 (5), 6, 37. salutis,Ov. P. 4, 15, 41.—Absol.: servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus,Liv. 34, 50 fin.: si servasti me non ideo servator es,Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 8; Servator, like the Gr. Σωτήρ, an epithet of Jupiter, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 74; Inscr. Grut. 18, 6.
* With abstr. objects, an observer, fulfiller of any duty (poet.); rigidi honesti,Luc. 2, 389; cf. foederis,Claud. B. Get. 496.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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