παρατηρεῖν (paraterein)

παρατηρεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of παρατηρέω, meaning “watch closely; observe”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 6.10: χρὴ δὲ τὸν ἱπποκόμον καὶ τὰ τοιάδε παρατηρεῖν, εἰ μὴ ῥᾳδίως τὸν χαλινὸν ὁ ἵππος δέχεται, αἰσθανόμενος ὅτι δεῖ πονεῖν. οὕτω γὰρ δὴ μέγα ἐστὶ τὸ λαμβάνειν ἐθέλειν τὸν ἵππον τὸν χαλινὸν ὡς ὁ μὴ δεχόμενος παντάπασιν ἄχρηστος.

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 2.8·5: … ἂν καταλειφθείη τὸ τοιοῦτον εἶδος ἐπὶ τῇ τοῦ μαθηματικοῦ πρὸς τὰς κατὰ μέρος διακρίσεις ἐπιβολῇ καὶ ἐπινοίᾳ. Παρατηρεῖν δὲ δεῖ καὶ πῶς ἔχουσι οἰκειώσεως οἱ τοῦ προτελέσματος τὴν κυρίαν λαβόντες ἀστέρες πρὸς αὐτὰς τὰς χώρας ἢ τὰς …

All forms of παρατηρέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.