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παρατήρ-ησις , εως, ἡ,
A.observation, διειλημμένοι εἰς παρατήρησιν kept under surveillance, Aen. Tact. 10.25 ; “παρατηρήσεις ἄστρων” D. S. 1.28, cf. 5.31 ; “π. παθέων ἀλλοτρίων” IG42(1).687.14 (Epid., ii A. D.) ; ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π. Plu.2.36 3b ; μετὰ παρατηρήσεως so that it can be observed, Ev. Luc. 17.20 : in bad sense, close observation, to detect faults, etc., Plb. 16.22.8 ; ἐνέδρα καὶ π. Plu. 2.266b ; empirical observation, opp. λογισμός, Gal.1.127 ; so κατὰ ἱστορίαν ἢ π. Phld.Rh. 1.40 S.
2.. observance of rules, etc., D.T.629.21.
3.. remark, note, “παρατηρήσεως ἄξια” Longin.23.2, cf. Sch.Ar.Ra.1258 ; ψιλὴ π. bare notice, A.D.Pron.41.8.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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