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τηρ-ητικός

teretikos

observant, needing to be observed, by observation

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τηρ-ητικός · tēr-ētikos — LSJ

observant

observant, Str. 3.5.8; ἀκολουθία S.E. M. 8.288, cf. Anon.Lond. 36.49; τ. αἵρεσις, τ. ἄνδρες, = ἐμπειρική (-κοί), Gal. Sect.Intr. 1.

2 needing to be observed, by observation

Pass., needing to be observed, D.L. 9.108. Adv. -κῶς by observation, S.E. M. 5.70.

3 retaining, preservative

retaining, βωμὸς τ. θυσιῶν Ph. 2.151; preservative, Ar.Did. Epit. 33; τοῦ ὑγιαίνειν Sor. 1.42; φύσεων Theol.Ar. 5.

In the wild

τηρητικῶν · tērētikōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8523)

Where it came from

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