I. One who gives attention to any thing, a watcher, observer: “Olympi,” Luc. 8, 171: “cruentus Bebrycii nemoris,” watcher, prowler, Stat. Th. 3, 352.—
II. 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.—
B. With abstr. objects, an observer, fulfiller of any duty (poet.); “rigidi honesti,” Luc. 2, 389; cf. “foederis,” Claud. B. Get. 496.
