παρατήρ-ησις, εως, ἡ,
observation, διειλημμένοι εἰς παρατήρησιν kept under surveillance, Aen.[[ Tact. 10.25; παρατηρήσεις ἄστρων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus 1.28, compare 5.31; π. παθέων ἀλλοτρίων “IG” 42(1).687.14 (Epid., 2nd c.AD) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποιεῖσθαι τὴν π. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.36 3b ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; μετὰ παρατηρήσεως so that it can be observed, NT.Luke.17.20: in bad sense, close observation, to detect faults, etc., [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.22.8 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐνέδρα καὶ π. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.266b ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; empirical observation, opposed to λογισμός, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.127 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; so κατὰ ἱστορίαν ἢ π. [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.40 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2. observance of rules, etc., [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 629.21. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__3. remark, note, παρατηρήσεως ἄξια [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 23.2, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1258 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψιλὴ π. bare notice, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 41.8. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]