servator

servātor, ōris, m. [id.].

I.

One who gives attention to any thing, a watcher, observer:

Olympi,

Luc. 8, 171:

cruentus Bebrycii nemoris,

watcher, prowler, Stat. Th. 3, 352.—

II.

Pregn., a preserver, deliverer, savior (the prevailing signif. of the word; class.): Ba. An tu veneficus? Co. Immo edepol vero hominum servator magis, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 84:

rei publicae (opp. perditor),

Cic. Planc. 36, 89;

patriae,

Liv. 6, 17; cf.:

Romulidarum arcis servator, candidus anser,

Lucr. 4, 683 Müll.:

mei capitis,

Cic. Planc. 42, 102:

mundi,

Prop. 4 (5), 6, 37:

salutis,

Ov. P. 4, 15, 41.— Absol.:

servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus,

Liv. 34, 50 fin.:

si servasti me non ideo servator es,

Sen. Ben. 2, 18, 8; Servator, like the Gr. Sôtêr, an epithet of Jupiter, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 74; Inscr. Grut. 18, 6.—

B.

With abstr. objects, an observer, fulfiller of any duty ( poet. );

rigidi honesti,

Luc. 2, 389; cf.

foederis,

Claud. B. Get. 496.