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διατηρ-έω , Boeot. διατηρ-τα_ρέω Supp.Epigr.1.132.8 (ii B. C.), but Dor. διατηρ-τηρέω SIG541A4:—
A.watch closely, observe, Pl.Lg.836d (v.l.), Arist. HA612b28; “δ. μή τι πάθωσι” D.9.20.
2. maintain, τὴν ἐλευθερίαν Decr. ap. D.18.184; τὴν τάξιν Decr.ib.37; “τὸ πρέπον” Arist.EN1178a13; “τὰ τοῦ βίου δίκαια” Men.637; “τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὴν ἑαυτῶν πίστιν” Plb.1.7.7; “τὴν εὔνοιαν” IG12(7).506; “τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν” Phld.D.3Fr.19, etc.:—Med., -εῖται τὸν καιρόν observes, ib.Fr.77:—Pass., “ὅταν διατηρηθῶσιν οἱ νόμοι τῇ πόλει” Aeschin.3.6; “ἀλειτούργητος -τηρείσθω ἡ θεία φύσις” Epicur.Ep.2p.42U.
3. with predicates, “βοῦς ἐννέα ἔτη δ. ἀνοχεύτους” Arist.HA595b18; “ἀβλαβές δ.” Plb.7.8.7; “ἀφλυκταίνωτα δ. τὰ μέρη” Dsc.5.156; “δ. τὸν πόλεμον” Plu.Dio33.
4. δ. ἑαυτὸν ἔκ τινος keep oneself from . ., Act.Ap.15.29.
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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