Acerra, thuris custos. Ouid.Wherein frankincense is kept.Fidissimus custos.Val. Flac.Incorruptior custos canis. Colum. Incorruptissimus custos. Horat. A watchman that will not be corrupted.Maximus custos. Horat. Tenax custos patrimonij. Quint. Addere custodem.Plaut.To set one to watch or keepe.Coronare abitum custode.Virg.To set men cound about to keepe the passage.Corrumpere custodem. Lucan. Imponere custodem alicui.Ouid.To set one to keepe or watch.Indere custodes.Tacit.Petere custodes salutis suæ. Quint. Custodem in frumento publico positum esse.Cic.Teneri custodi. Lucan. Vacans custode. Ouid. Custos exactor. Tacitus. The onerseer of worke that it be done more diligently.Custodes dicebantur, qui accusatori solebant dari, non solùm chartarum causa, neque adiuuandi eius, sed etiam vt non facilè accusator corrumpi posset. Asconius. The assistent to an accuser that he might not be corrupted.Apponere custodem alicui.Cic.Custos in vitibus. Columel. A young branche in a vine, with which it may be repaired, if the residue decay. Colum. lib. 4. cap. 24. Custódio custódis, pen. prod. custodíui, custodîtum, custodîre. Plin. To keepe: to reteine: to obserue.Custodire se.Cic.To gard or keepe himselfe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăcerra, ae, f. [etym. unc., perh. from ăcer = maple], a casket in which was kept the incense used in sacrifices, esp. in burning the dead, an incense-box: ne sumptuosa respersio, ne longae coronae, nec acerrae praetereantur, from the XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 24, 60: plenā veneratur larem, Verg. A. 5, 745; cf.: plena turis, Hor. C. 3, 8, 2; tacitā libabit acerrā, Pers. 2, 5; so also Ov. M. 13, 703; id. Pont. 4, 8, 39; Fratr. Arval. in Orell. I. L. 2270, p. 391 al. Cf. Fest. s. h. v. p. 18 Müll, who gives another signif.: ACERRA, ara, quae ante mortuum poni solebat.
Ăcerrae, ārum, f.I.A town in the interior of Campania, N. E. of Naples, now Acerra, exposed to frequent inundations from the Clanius, on which it is situated; hence in Verg.: vacuis Clanius non aequus Acerris, G. 2, 225 Wagner; imitated by Silius, 8, 538.—Deriv., B. Ăcerrāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of A., Liv. 27, 3, 6; Vell. 1, 14, 4; Plin. 3, 5, 9, 63.—II.A town in Umbria, called, for the sake of distinction, Acerrae Vatriae, now Gerrha, Plin. 3, 14, 19, 114.