διατηρ-έω,
Boeotian dialect δια-τᾱρέω [[ “Supp.epigram” 1.132.8 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+], but Doric dialect δια-τηρέω [[ “SIG” 541 A 4] Refs]:— watch closely, observe, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 836d (variant), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 612b28; δ. μή τι πάθωσι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.20. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 maintain, τὴν ἐλευθερίαν Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.184; τὴν τάξιν Decrees [prev. work]37; τὸ πρέπον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1178a13; τὰ τοῦ βίου δίκαια 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 637; τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὴν ἑαυτῶν πίστιν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.7.7; τὴν εὔνοιαν “IG” 12(7).506; τὴν ἀφθαρσίαν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3 “fragment” 19, etc.:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —middle, -εῖται τὸν καιρόν observes,[[[prev. work] “fragment” 77] Refs]:—passive, ὅταν διατηρηθῶσιν οἱ νόμοι τῇ πόλει [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.6; ἀλειτούργητος -τηρείσθω ἡ θεία φύσις 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.42U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 with predicates, βοῦς ἐννέα ἔτη δ. ἀνοχεύτους [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 595b18; ἀβλαβές δ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.8.7; ἀφλυκταίνωτα δ. τὰ μέρη 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.156; δ. τὸν πόλεμον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Dio” 33. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 δ. ἑαυτὸν ἔκ τινος keep oneself from.., [[ NT.Act.15.29. ] NT]