Custodia, æ. f. gen. Custodie: keepinge: watch: ward: a prison or place where one is keptior the place where watch men be.Fida custodia canum.Cic.Custodia iustitiæ. Cicero. The preseruing of mans society by instice.Pædagogorum custodia. Quin. Religionis custodia. Quin. Custodia salutis alicuius.Cic.Custodia sui. Cels. Tenere virginem domi septam liberali custodia. Cicero. To keepe the maide at home in hys house honestlye and liberally.Pecudum custodia solers.Virg.De custodia ciuitatis deturbari.Cic.Ponere aliquem in custodia.Cic.Liberare custodijs corporis.Cic.In custodiam alterius se tradere. Plau. To put himself into % safegard or keeping or another.Custodia, qui custoditur. Suet. A prisoner: the party that is kept. Custodiæ, arum.Cic.They that keepe or watch.Acribus namque custodijs domum & vias sepserat.Liu. Tac. He had set diligent persons round about to wath & keepe, % house.Tuo aduentu vigilat custodia. Catul. Vigil custodia.Ouid.Watchful keepers.Noctem custodia ducet insomuem ludo. Vir. The watchmÊ plaied al night long without sleepe.Excubias & custodias alicui polliceri.Cic.Vestra tecta custodijs, vigiliísque defendite.Cic.
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custōdĭa, ae, f. [id.], a watching, watch, guard, care, protection (freq. and class.). I. In gen. A.Lit.: in tuam custodiam meque et meas spes trado, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 59: agitare custodiam,
to keep guard
, id. Rud. 3, 6, 20: iis impedimentis custodiae ac praesidio VI. milia hominum unā reliquerunt, Caes. B. G. 2, 29: sub hospitum privatorum custodiā esse, Liv. 42, 19, 5: tam fida canum, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158: pastoris, Col. 8, 4, 3: paedagogorum, Quint. 1, 2, 25: dura matrum,
care, oversight
, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 22 et saep.: navium longarum, Caes. B. C. 3, 39: ignis (Vestae), Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29: urbis, Caes. B. C. 1, 17; 2, 36; Liv. 5, 10, 4; cf.: urbis, sui, Suet. Aug. 49: corporis, id. Galb. 12: illa (sc. pontis), Nep. Milt. 3, 2: portus, Auct. B. Alex. 17: cum in ejusdem anni custodiā te atque L. Murenam fortuna posuisset, Cic. Mur. 31, 64: aliquid privatā custodiā continere, id. Sull. 15, 42: circum familias conventus Campaniae custodiae causā distribuit, Caes. B. C. 1, 14 fin.: in muro custodiae causā conlocati, id. ib. 1, 28; Auct. B. Afr. 46: navis quae erat ad custodiam ab Acilio posita, Caes. B. C. 3, 40: tribunus adpositus custodiae (alicujus), Tac. A. 1, 6: ignaviam suam tenebrarum ac parietum custodiis tegere, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21: a cujus audaciā fratris liberos ne materni quidem corporis custodiae tegere potuissent, id. Clu. 11, 31: fida justitiae, id. Fin. 2, 34, 113: una fidelis memoriae rerum gestarum (litterae), Liv. 6, 1, 2: libertatis, id. 4, 24, 4: suae religionis, Quint. 6, 1, 20: decoris, id. 11, 1, 57 et saep.—B.Meton.1. Usu. in plur. and in milit. lang., persons who serve as guards, a guard, watch, sentinel: colonia meis praesidiis, custodiis, vigiliis munita, Cic. Cat. 1, 3, 8; 2, 12, 26; id. Verr. 2, 3, 24, 60: neque clam transire propter custodias Menapiorum possent, Caes. B. G. 4, 4; 7, 19; 7, 27 et saep.—In sing. (collect.), Cat. 62, 33: abest custodia regi, Ov. M. 14, 371: unicus anser erat, minimae custodia villae, id. ib. 8, 684: corporis,
a body-guard
, Curt. 5, 1, 42.—2.A place where guard is kept, a watch- or guard - house, watch - station: haec (urbs) mea sedes est, haec vigilia, haec custodia, Cic. Phil. 12, 10, 24: privata, id. Sull. 15, 42: in hac custodiā et tamquam speculā, id. Phil. 7, 7, 19: ceteri in custodiam conditi, Tac. H. 4, 2.—In plur., Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 16; id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21—II. With the access. idea of hindering free motion, a watching, guarding, custody, restraint, confinement. A.Lit.: nec cuiquam uni custodiam ejus (sc. Philopoemenis capti) satis credebant, Liv. 39, 50, 2: quive (servi) inve ludum custodiamve conjecti fuerint, Gai Inst. 1, 13: animal quod custodiam nostram evadit, id. ib. 2, 67: famulos vinclis atque custodiā ... tueri, Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 48. —Plur.: in praedonum hostiumque custodias tantum numerum civium Romanorum includere, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 55, 144: libera,
private custody, confinement in one's house
, Liv. 24, 45, 8; Vell. 1, 11 (cf.: libero conclavi, Liv. 39, 14, 9); and in plur.: in liberis custodiis, Sall. C. 47, 3; cf. trop.: domi teneamus eam (eloquentiam), saeptam liberali custodiā, Cic. Brut. 96, 330.—Perh. in a play upon the words libera custodia: ut sis apud me ligneā in custodiā, Plaut. Poen. 5, 6, 28. —B.Meton.1.A place of confinement, a prison, hold: Lentulus comprehenditur et in custodiā necatur, Caes. B. C. 3, 104 fin.; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, 68 and 69; id. Cat. 1, 8, 19; id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4, 14; id. Div. 1, 25, 52; id. Tusc. 1, 29, 71 et saep. —Trop.: corporis custodiis se liberare, Cic. Rep. 6, 15, 15.—2.Persons in confinement, captives, prisoners (post-Aug.): in recognoscendis custodiis, Suet. Tib. 61; id. Dom. 14: unus ex custodiarum agmine, Sen. Ep. 77, 18.—Of a single person: eādem catenā et custodiam et militem copulat, Sen. Ep. 5, 7.