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  • 1 custos

    custos, ōdis, comm. [root sku-, to cover, hide, etc.; cf. scutum, keuthô, Germ. Haut, Haus, Corss. Ausspr. I. p. 353], a guard, watch, preserver, keeper, overseer, protector, defender, attendant, etc., protectress, etc., in a friendly or hostile sense (freq. and class.).
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Of living beings.
    1.
    In gen.: antiqua erilis fida custos corporis, Enn. Med. ap. Non. p. 39, 2 (Trag. Rel. v. 289 Vahl.); cf. in masc.:

    corporis,

    a body-guard, Liv. 24, 7, 4; so plur., Nep. Dat. 9, 3; Suet. Calig. 55 al.:

    Commium cum equitatu custodis loco relinquit,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 6 fin.:

    cum vigillis custodibusque nostris colloqui,

    id. B. C. 1, 22 init.:

    portae,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27:

    fani,

    id. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94. custos defensorque provinciae, id. ib. 2, 5, 6, §

    12: pontis,

    Nep. Milt. 3, 1:

    patrimonii,

    Quint. 4, 2, 73:

    hortorum,

    Suet. Calig. 59:

    gregis,

    Verg. E. 10, 36:

    pecuniae regiae,

    Curt. 5, 1, 20: ipse pecuniae quam regni melior custos, Liv 44, 26, 12: rei publicae custos senatus, Cic. Sest. 65, 137:

    templorum,

    id. Dom. 55, 141:

    custos ac vindex cupiditatum,

    id. Agr. 2, 9, 24:

    salutis suae,

    Quint. 5, 11, 8; Curt. 3, 6, 1; Tac. A. 3, 14 et saep.:

    his discipulis privos custodes dabo,

    Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 76; so of teachers of youth, id. ib. 4, 3, 19; Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57; Hor. S. 1, 4, 118; id. A. P. 161; 239:

    virtutis (ego) verae custos rigidusque satelles,

    id. Ep. 1, 1, 17.—Freq. of the gods, etc.:

    dei custodes et conservatores hujus urbis,

    Cic. Sest. 24, 53; cf.:

    custodi Jovi,

    Suet. Dom. 5:

    montium custos Diana,

    Hor. C. 3, 22, 1:

    rerum Caesar,

    id. ib. 4, 15, 17: multae tibi tum officient res, Custodes, etc., i. e. attendants of women, eunuchs, etc., id. S. 1, 2, 98 Heind.—Of dogs, Verg. G. 3, 406; Col. 7, 12;

    so of Cerberus,

    Verg. A. 6, 424 al., and of the constellation Bootes, Arktophulax, Vitr. 9, 4, 1: armorum, the officer in charge of the arms in an army or fleet, Dig. 49, 16, 14, § 1; Inscr. Orell. 3630 al.—
    2.
    In civil affairs, t. t., a man who took charge of the vessel into which voting tablets were put (in order to prevent false suffrages), Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 18; Cic. Agr. 2, 9, 22; id. Red. Sen. 7, 17.—
    B.
    Of inanimate subjects.
    1.
    Of abstract subjects:

    natura Ipsaque corporis est custos et causa salutis,

    Lucr. 3, 324:

    haec custos dignitatis (fortitudo),

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 33:

    sapientia custos et procuratrix totius hominis,

    id. Fin. 4, 7, 17; id. Off. 2, 7, 23:

    leges diligentissimae pudoris custodes,

    Quint. 8, 5, 19 al. —
    2.
    Of receptacles, safes, e. g. of a quiver:

    eburnea Telorum custos,

    Ov. M. 8, 320; of an incense-box:

    turis,

    id. ib. 13, 703; and in husbandry, the stump of an amputated vine-branch, i. q. resex, pollex, praesidiarius or subsidiarius palmes, Col. 4, 21, 3.—
    II.
    In a hostile sense.
    A.
    In gen., a watch, spy:

    Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut, quae agat, quibuscum loquatur, scire possit,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.:

    custodem, inquit, Tullio me apponite. Quid, mihi quam multis custodibus opus erit, etc.,

    Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 51; id. Verr. 2, 5, 25, § 63; Caes. B. G. 1, 20 fin.:

    num nam hic relictu's custos, Nequis, etc.,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 55; cf. v. 59; Curt. 5, 11, 2; Suet. Tib. 12 al.—
    B.
    Esp., a jailer, keeper:

    carceris,

    Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 57; Nep. Eum. 11, 1; id. Alcib. 4, 4:

    quem ex Mauritania rex proditionis insimulatum cum custodibus miserat,

    Sall. H. 2, 25 Dietsch:

    te sub custode tenebo,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 77; Tac. A. 2, 68; 3, 28; 4, 60 al.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > custos

  • 2 sterilis

    stĕrĭlis, e (collat. form, acc. sing. fem sterilam sterilem, Fest. p. 316 Müll.; neutr. plur. sterila, Lucr. 2, 845; abl. sterile, Apic. 7, 1, § 258), adj. [Gr. stereos, hard; steriphê, steira, barren; Sanscr. starī, vacca sterilis], unfruitful, barren, sterile, of plants and animals (class. and very freq.;

    syn infecundus): steriles nascuntur avenae,

    Verg. E. 5, 37; so,

    ulvae,

    Ov. M. 4, 299:

    herba,

    id. Am. 3, 7, 31; Curt. 4, 1, 21:

    platani,

    Verg. G. 2, 70:

    agri,

    id. ib. 1, 84; id. A. 3, 141:

    tellus,

    Ov. M. 8, 789:

    palus,

    Hor. A. P. 65:

    harena,

    Verg. G. 1, 70:

    humus,

    Prop. 3, 2 (2, 11), 2; Curt. 7, 5, 34:

    solum,

    id. 3, 4, 3:

    steriles nimium crasso sunt semine,

    Lucr. 4, 1240; Cat. 67, 26:

    galli Tanagric' ad partus sunt steriliores,

    Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 6:

    vacca,

    Verg. A. 6, 251:

    multae (mulie res),

    Lucr. 4, 1251:

    viri,

    i. e. eunuchs, Cat. 63, 69; Plin. 24, 10, 47, § 78; Mart. 9, 9, 8:

    ova,

    Plin. 10, 60, 80, § 166.—
    B.
    Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
    1.
    Of things, causing unfruitfulness or sterility:

    rubigo,

    Hor. C. 3, 23, 6:

    frigus,

    Luc. 4, 108:

    hiems,

    Mart. 8, 68, 10:

    serere pampinariis sterile est,

    produces sterility, Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 157.—
    2.
    In gen., barren, bare, empty:

    manus,

    Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 3:

    sterilis amator a datis,

    bare of gifts, id. ib. 2, 1, 30:

    amicus,

    Juv. 12, 97; Mart. 10, 18, 3:

    epistulae,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 2, 2:

    saeculum,

    id. ib. 5, 17, 6:

    civitas ad aquas,

    App. M. 1, p. 106 fin.:

    vadum,

    Sen. Thyest. 173:

    corpora sonitu (with jejuna succo),

    that yield no sound, Lucr. 2, 845:

    prospectus,

    without human beings, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 15:

    domus,

    without children, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 62:

    nummi,

    that do not bear interest, Dig. 22, 1, 7.—With gen.:

    sterilis laurus baccarum,

    Plin. 15, 30, 39, § 130:

    lapides plumbi,

    id. 33, 7, 40, § 119.—
    II.
    Trop., unproductive, unprofitable, fruitless, useless, vain:

    Februarius,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 12, 2:

    quod monumentum, quod immo temporis punctum, aut beneficio sterile, aut vacuum laude?

    Plin. Pan. 56, 2:

    ne sit sterile et effetum (saeculum),

    id. Ep. 5, 17, 6:

    fama (with cassa),

    Stat. Th. 6, 70:

    labor,

    Mart. 10, 58, 8:

    pax,

    Tac. A. 1, 17:

    amor,

    i. e. unreturned, unrequited, Ov. M. 1, 496; Stat. S. 3, 4, 42:

    cathedrae,

    unprofitable, Mart. 1, 76, 14; Juv. 7, 203:

    litus sterili versamus aratro,

    id. 7, 49.—With gen., destitute, deprived of, unacquainted with:

    urbes talium studiorum fuere steriles,

    Vell. 1, 18 fin.:

    non adeo virtutum sterile saeculum,

    Tac. H. 1, 3:

    heu steriles veri!

    Pers. 5, 75.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sterilis

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