overseer

actor, ōris, m. [id.].

One who drives or moves something:

pecoris actor,

Ov. H. 1, 95:

habenae,

a slinger, Stat. Ach. 2, 419.—

In gen., he who does any thing, a doer or performer (cf. ago, II.).

In gen. of every kind of action:

ut illum efficeret oratorem verborum actoremque rerum,

Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 57 (a translation of the Homer. prêktêra ergôn, Il. 9, 443):

Cato dux, auctor, actor rerum illarum fuit,

id. Sest. 28 fin.; so Caes. B. C. 1, 26; Nep. Att. 3, 2 al.—

In judicial lang., one who brings an action, a plaintiff:

accusatorem pro omni actore et petitore appello,

Cic. Part. 32;

esp. of lawyers: Moloni Rhodio et actori summo causarum et magistro,

id. Brut. 89 fin.; so Hor. A. P. 369 al.—Also, one who conducts a suit, an advocate, Cic. Caec. 1.—Hence,

At a later period, an agent or attorney; in gen., an administrator or manager or steward, overseer of property or an estate.—So in Tac.: actor publicus, he who administers the public property, Ann. 2, 30; 3, 67: actor summarum, a keeper of accounts or cashier, Suet. Dom. 11, and so often in the Dig.: sub actoribus, overseers (of a household), Vulg. Gal. 4, 2.—

In rhetor. lang., one who delivers any oral discourse; and esp. one who delivers an oration, an orator:

inventor, compositor, actor,

Cic. Or. 19.—

A player, an actor:

actores secundarum et tertiarum partium,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15; so id. de Or. 1, 26; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16 (cf. ago, II., and actio, II. C.).

Actor, ŏris, m.

A companion of Aeneas, Verg. A. 9, 500.—

An Auruncan, ib. 12, 94; 96.—Hence, Actŏ-rĭdes, ae, patron. m., son or grandson of Actor: his son, Menoetius, Ov. F. 2, 39; his grandson, Patroclus, Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 29; id. M. 13, 273; Erithos, id. ib. 5, 79.—In plur.: Actŏrĭdae, i. e. Eurytus and Cleatus, sons of Actor, King of Phthia, id. ib. 8, 308.

actor, ōris, m. [id.].

One who drives or moves something:

pecoris actor,

Ov. H. 1, 95:

habenae,

a slinger, Stat. Ach. 2, 419.—

In gen., he who does any thing, a doer or performer (cf. ago, II.).

In gen. of every kind of action:

ut illum efficeret oratorem verborum actoremque rerum,

Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 57 (a translation of the Homer. prêktêra ergôn, Il. 9, 443):

Cato dux, auctor, actor rerum illarum fuit,

id. Sest. 28 fin.; so Caes. B. C. 1, 26; Nep. Att. 3, 2 al.—

In judicial lang., one who brings an action, a plaintiff:

accusatorem pro omni actore et petitore appello,

Cic. Part. 32;

esp. of lawyers: Moloni Rhodio et actori summo causarum et magistro,

id. Brut. 89 fin.; so Hor. A. P. 369 al.—Also, one who conducts a suit, an advocate, Cic. Caec. 1.—Hence,

At a later period, an agent or attorney; in gen., an administrator or manager or steward, overseer of property or an estate.—So in Tac.: actor publicus, he who administers the public property, Ann. 2, 30; 3, 67: actor summarum, a keeper of accounts or cashier, Suet. Dom. 11, and so often in the Dig.: sub actoribus, overseers (of a household), Vulg. Gal. 4, 2.—

In rhetor. lang., one who delivers any oral discourse; and esp. one who delivers an oration, an orator:

inventor, compositor, actor,

Cic. Or. 19.—

A player, an actor:

actores secundarum et tertiarum partium,

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15; so id. de Or. 1, 26; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16 (cf. ago, II., and actio, II. C.).

Actor, ŏris, m.

A companion of Aeneas, Verg. A. 9, 500.—

An Auruncan, ib. 12, 94; 96.—Hence, Actŏ-rĭdes, ae, patron. m., son or grandson of Actor: his son, Menoetius, Ov. F. 2, 39; his grandson, Patroclus, Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 29; id. M. 13, 273; Erithos, id. ib. 5, 79.—In plur.: Actŏrĭdae, i. e. Eurytus and Cleatus, sons of Actor, King of Phthia, id. ib. 8, 308.

cŏm-ĕs, ĭtis, comm. [con and 1. eo] (lit. one who goes with another), a companion, an associate, comrade, partaker, sharer, partner, etc. (whether male or female; class. and freq.).

In gen.

Masc.:

age, age, argentum numera, ne comites morer,

Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 25:

confugere domum sine comite,

Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 25:

comes meus fuit, et omnium itinerum meorum socius,

Cic. Fam. 13, 71:

erat comes ejus Rubrius,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 25, § 64:

cui tu me comitem putas esse,

id. Att. 8, 7, 1:

ibimus, o socii comitesque,

Hor. C. 1, 7, 26; Lucr. 3, 1037; 4, 575:

Catulli,

Cat. 11, 1:

Pisonis,

id. 28, 1; Nep. Ages. 6, 3:

quin et avo comitem sese Mavortius addet Romulus,

Verg. A. 6, 778; cf.:

comes ire alicui,

id. ib. 6, 159:

comitem aliquem mittere alicui,

id. ib. 2, 86:

comes esse alicui,

Ov. H. 14, 54 et saep. —

With gen. or dat. of thing:

cum se victoriae Pompeji comitem esse mallet quam, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 3, 80:

comitem illius furoris,

Cic. Lael. 11, 37:

me tuarum actionum, sententiarum, etc., socium comitemque habebis,

id. Fam. 1, 9, 22:

mortis et funeris atri,

Lucr. 2, 581:

tantae virtutis,

Liv. 22, 60, 12:

exsilii,

Mart. 12, 25:

fugae,

Vell. 2, 53; Liv. 1, 3, 2; Cic. Att. 9, 10, 2; cf. Suet. Tib. 6:

me habuisti comitem consiliis tuis,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 15.—With in:

comes in ulciscendis quibusdam,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 2.—

Fem., Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 54; Lucr. 5, 741:

data sum comes inculpata Minervae,

Ov. M. 2, 588; cf. id. H. 3, 10:

me tibi venturam comitem,

id. ib. 13, 163; Verg. A. 4, 677; 6, 448.—

Transf. to inanimate objects:

malis erat angor Assidue comes,

Lucr. 6, 1159:

comes formidinis, aura,

id. 3, 290:

ploratus mortis comites,

id. 2, 580:

tunc vitae socia virtus, mortis comes gloria fuisset,

Cic. Font. 21, 49 (17, 39):

multarum deliciarum comes est extrema saltatio,

id. Mur. 6, 13:

pacis est comes, otiique socia eloquentia,

id. Brut. 12, 45; cf.

an idea (perh. intentionally) opp. to this,

Tac. Or. 40:

non ut ullam artem doctrinamve contemneres, sed ut omnis comites ac ministratrices oratoris esse diceres,

Cic. de Or. 1, 17, 75:

cui ipsi casus eventusque rerum non duces sed comites consiliorum fuerunt,

id. Balb. 4, 9:

exanimatio. quas comes pavoris,

id. Tusc. 4, 8, 19:

(grammatice) dulcis secretorum comes,

Quint. 1, 4, 5:

(cura) comes atra premit sequiturque fugacem,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 115:

culpam poena premit comes,

id. C. 4, 5, 24:

nec (fides) comitem abnegat,

id. ib. 1, 35, 22: comitemque [p. 374] aeris alieni atque litis esse miseriam, Orac. ap. Plin. 7, 32, 32, § 119.—

In partic.

An overseer, tutor, teacher, etc., of young persons (rare;

not ante-Aug.),

Verg. A. 2, 86; 5, 546; Suet. Tib. 12; Stat. S. 5, 2, 60.— Esp. = paedagogus, a slave who accompanied boys as a protector, Suet. Aug. 98; id. Claud. 35.—Far more freq.,

The suite, retinue of friends, relatives, scholars, noble youth, etc., which accompanied magistrates into the provinces, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 10, § 27 sq; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3, § 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 2; Suet. Caes. 42; id. Ner. 5; id. Gram. 10.—

The attendants of distinguished private individuals, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 76; 1, 17, 52; id. S. 1, 6, 102; Suet. Caes. 4.— Trop.: (Cicero) in libris de Republica Platonis se comitem profitetur, Plin. praef. § 22.—

After the time of the emperors, the imperial train, the courtiers, court, Suet. Aug. 16; 98; id. Tib. 46; id. Calig. 45; id. Vit. 11; id. Vesp. 4; Inscr. Orell. 723; 750 al.—Hence,

In late Lat., a designation for the occupant of any state office, as, comes scholarum, rei militaris, aerarii utriusque, commerciorum (hence, Ital. conte; Fr. comte).

cūra, ae, f. [caveo; cf. curo init. ], care, solicitude, carefulness, thought, concern.

Trouble (physical or mental), bestowed on something; solicitude, care, attention, pains (syn.: diligentia, opera, studium, labor, etc.; opp. neglegentia, etc.; v. the foll.; very freq. in every per. and species of composition).

Lit.

In gen.

Ab. sol.: curantes magnā cum curā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107:

magnā cum curā ego illum curari volo,

Plaut. Men. 5, 4, 7; cf. id. ib. 5, 4, 9:

in aliquā re curam ponere (just before: magnum studi um multamque operam, etc.),

Cic. Off. 1, 6, 19:

haec tam acrem curam diligentiamque desiderant,

id. de Or. 3, 48, 184;

so with diligentia,

Quint. 10, 1, 86:

si utrumque cum curā et studio fecerimus,

id. 10, 7, 29:

aliquid cum curā exsequi,

Liv. 39, 41, 6:

plus laboris et curae,

Quint. 8, prooem. § 13;

so with labor,

id. 2, 2, 10 al.:

cura et industria,

Suet. Gram. 21:

ut in rem publicam omni cogitatione curāque incumberes,

Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 2;

so with cogitatio,

id. ib. 10, 3, 3; id. de Or. 2, 44, 186; and in plur., id. Off. 2, 1, 2;

opp. neglegentia,

Quint. 11, 3, 137; 11, 3, 19:

non naturam defecisse sed curam,

id. 1, 1, 2;

so opp. natura,

id. 1, 2, 4; 2, 8, 5:

omni curā vestigare,

Curt. 4, 6, 5:

omni curā in aliquid incumbere,

Cic. Fam. 12, 24, 2:

omnem curam in siderum cognitione ponere,

id. Div. 1, 42, 93:

cura et meditatio accessit,

Tac. Or. 16; cf. id. Agr. 10 et saep.:

eo majore curā illam (rem publicam) administrari,

Sall. J. 85, 2:

curam praestare,

Suet. Tib. 18:

in re unā consumere curam (for which, in foll. verse, laborare),

Hor. S. 2, 4, 48 et saep.: esse cura alicui, to be an object of one's care:

cura pii diis sunt et qui coluere coluntur,

Ov. M. 8, 724.—

With gen., care, attention, management, administration, charge, a guardianship, concern for a person or thing, etc.:

difficilis rerum alienarum,

Cic. Off. 1, 9, 30; cf.:

rerum domesticarum,

Quint. 3, 3, 9:

maxima belli,

Cic. Att. 6, 5, 3:

agrorum,

Quint. 12, 1, 6:

corporis,

id. 1, 11, 15:

capillorum,

Suet. Dom. 18:

funeris sui,

id. Tib. 51 et saep.:

deorum,

Liv. 6, 41, 9:

civium,

id. 6, 15, 11:

nepotum,

Quint. 4, prooem. §

2: magni Caesaris,

Hor. C. 1, 12, 50; Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 37; Sen. Ep. 14, 2 et saep.—

With de and abl.:

omnis cura de re publicā,

Cic. Brut. 3, 10:

quocum mihi conjuncta cura de publicā re et privatā fuit,

id. Lael. 4, 15:

si qua de Pompejo nostro tuendo... cura te attigit,

id. Att. 9, 11, 2, A:

gratissima est mihi tua cura de illo mandato,

id. ib. 5, 4, 1.—So with de:

curam habere, agere, etc.: de vitā communi omnium curam habere,

Vitr. 1, 2, init.:

Romani tamquam de Samnitibus non de se curam agerent,

Liv. 8, 3, 8.—

With pro:

omnium non tam pro Aetolis cura erat, quam ne, etc.,

Liv. 27, 30, 5:

curam habere pro aliquo,

Veg. 2, 20:

curam pro nobis hospitis, uxor, agas,

Ov. H. 15 (16), 302.—

Curae (alicui) esse, to be an object of care or attention; to have a care for, take care of, attend to, to be anxious about, bestow pains upon, etc.:

Caesar pollicitus est, sibi eam rem curae futuram, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 1, 33:

haec sibi esse curae,

id. ib. 1, 40:

rati sese diis curae esse,

Sall. J. 75, 9:

cui salus mea fuit curae,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 22; 15, 2, 8; Quint. 3, 8, 45 et saep.:

ea tantae mihi curae sunt, ut, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 24:

pollicetur sibi magnae curae fore, ut omnia restituerentur,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 33, § 73; cf.:

si tibi curae Quantae conveniat,

Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 30:

ipsis doctoribus hoc esse curae velim, ut, etc.,

Quint. 2, 4, 5:

dumque amor est curae,

Ov. M. 2, 683:

ceterum magis vis morbi ingravescens curae erat, terroresque ac prodigia,

Liv. 4, 21, 5:

ceterum eo tempore minus ea bella... curae patribus erant, quam expectatio, etc.,

id. 35, 23, 1:

in eorum periculis non secus absentes quam praesentes amicos Attico esse curae,

Nep. Att. 12, 5.—With a subject-clause:

nonnulli, quibus non fuit curae caelestem inveterare aquam, etc.,

Col. 12, 12, 3; Quint. 7, 1, 4; 9, 3, 74:

eligere modo curae sit,

id. 10, 1, 31:

mihi erit curae explorare provinciae voluntatem,

Plin. Ep. 7, 10, 2.—With de: de mandatis quod tibi curae fuit, est mihi gratum, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 8:

sic recipiunt, Caesari... de augendā meā dignitate curae fore,

Cic. Att. 11, 6, 3; cf. id. Fam. 10, 1, 1, and II. A. fin. infra:

de ceteris senatui curae fore,

Sall. J. 26, 1.—In the same sense also,

Curae aliquid habere:

cohortatus, ut petitionem suam curae haberent,

Sall. C. 21 fin.; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 10;

Quint. prooem. § 16: habebo itaque curae, ut te meliorem reddam,

Sen. Ben. 1, 8, 2:

ut ille... quid ageret, curae sibi haberet certiorem facere Atticum,

Nep. Att. 20, 4.—

Cura est, with subject-clause, solicitude, care, anxiety to do any thing ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

curaque finitimos vincere major erat,

Ov. F. 1, 30:

talis amor teneat, nec sit mihi cura mederi,

Verg. E. 8, 89:

cura comere capillum fuit,

Sen. Q. N. 1, 17, 7.—

In partic., t. t.

In political lang. (esp. of the post-Aug. per.), the management of state affairs, administration, charge, oversight, command, office:

magistratus et imperia, postremo omnis cura rerum publicarum minime mihi hac tempestate cupiunda videntur,

Sall. J. 3, 1; so,

legionis armandae,

Tac. H. 1, 80:

aerarii,

Suet. Aug. 36:

annonae,

id. Tib. 8:

operum publicorum, viarum, aquarum, etc. (preceded by nova officia),

id. Aug. 37 al. —

In the jurists, the management of business for a minor, guardianship, trusteeship (for the more usu. curatio), Dig. 3, 1, 1; 5, 1, 19 et saep.—

In medic., medical attendance, healing (for curatio), cure:

aquae, quae sub cutem est,

Cels. 2, 10; Vell. 2, 123; Sil. 6, 551 Drak. et saep.— Plur.:

curae aegrescentium,

Macr. S. 7, 4, 6.—Hence, poet.:

illa fuit lacrimis ultima cura meis (sc. somnus),

Prop. 1, 3, 46; cf. Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5.—

In agriculture, care, culture, rearing:

Pelusiacae lentis,

Verg. G. 1, 228:

boum,

id. ib. 1, 3.—

Meton. (abstr. pro concr.).

Like the Gr. meletê, a written work, writing (several times in Tac.;

elsewhere rare): quorum in manus cura nostra venerit,

Tac. A. 4, 11; id. Or. 3; Ov. P. 4, 16, 39. —In plur., Tac. A. 3, 24.—

An attendant, guardian, overseer (very rare):

tertius immundae cura fidelis harae,

i. e. the swine - herd Eumæus, Ov. H. 1, 104: praetorii, Treb. Claud. 14; cf. Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 45; 2, 1.—

Anxiety, solicitude, concern, disquiet, trouble, grief, sorrow; syn.: sollicitudo, metus, etc.; cf. phrontis (very freq. in every per. and species of composition).

In gen.: si quid ego adjuro curamve levasso, quae nunc te coquit, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 1, 1:

animus lassus, curā confectus,

Ter. And. 2, 1, 4:

cottidianā curā angere ani mum,

id. Phorm. 1, 3, 8:

curae metusque,

Cic. Div. 2, 72, 150: cura et sollicitudo. id. Att. 15, 14, 3; Quint. 8, prooem. § 20;

11, 1, 44 et saep.: curas cordis manis,

Lucr. 3, 116:

acres cuppedinis,

id. 5, 46:

gravi saucia curā (Dido),

Verg. A. 4, 1:

atra, Hor C. 3, 1, 40: edaces,

id. ib. 2, 11, 18:

vitiosa,

id. ib. 2, 16, 22:

sine curā esse,

Cic. Att. 12, 6, 4; 15, 12, 2:

quid facerem, curā cruciabar miser,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 1, 23:

cura est, negoti quid sit aut quid nuntiet,

I am anxious, my concern is, id. ib. 1, 2, 10; cf.: amica mea quid agat, Cura est, ut valeat, id. Stich. [p. 501] 5, 2, 4:

mihi maximae curae est, non de meā quidem vitā, sed me patria sollicitat, etc.,

Cic. Fam. 10, 1, 1.—With pro:

quam pro me curam geris,

Verg. A. 12, 48.—With in:

nullā in posterum curā,

Tac. H. 3, 55.— Plur.:

cur eam rem tam studiose curas, quae tibi multas dabit curas,

Auct. Her. 4, 14, 21:

at tibi curarum milia quanta dabit!

Prop. 1, 5, 10.—

In partic., the care, pain, or anxiety of love, love ( poet.):

crescit enim assidue spectando cura puellae,

Prop. 3 (4), 21, 3; cf. Ov. R. Am. 311:

tua sub nostro pectore cura,

Prop. 1, 15, 31:

et juvenum curas et libera vina referre,

Hor. A. P. 85: hinc illaec primum Veneris dulcedinis in cor Stillavit gutta et successit frigida cura, chilling anxiety for one loved, Lucr. 4, 1060.—Hence,

Meton. (abstr. pro concr.), the loved object, the mistress:

tua cura, Lycoris,

Verg. E. 10, 22; Prop. 2 (3), 25, 1; 2 (3), 34, 9; Hor. C. 2, 8, 8; Verg. Cir. 75; cf.:

puer, mea maxima cura,

id. A. 1, 678; 10, 132:

cura deum,

id. ib. 3, 46:

raucae, tua cura, palumbes,

id. E. 1, 57 Forbig. ad loc.

cūrātor (old orthog. COERATOR, v. the foll.), ōris, m. [id.], he who cares for or takes charge of a thing, a manager, overseer, superintendent, keeper.

In gen.:

ludorum,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 36:

suntoque aediles coeratores urbis annonae ludorumque solemnium,

Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 6:

viae Flaminiae,

id. Att. 1, 1, 2:

aviarii,

a bird-keeper, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 5; cf.

apum,

Col. 9, 9, 1:

pavonini gregis,

id. 8, 11, 2;

and gallinarius,

Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 7:

fidus negotiorum,

Sall. J. 71, 3:

munerum ac venationum,

Suet. Calig. 27:

restituendae Campaniae,

id. Tit. 8:

restituendi Capitolii,

Gell. 2, 10, 2 et saep.:

muris reficiendis,

Cic. Opt. Gen. 7, 19:

legibus agrariis,

id. Agr. 2, 7, 17:

curator, qui statuis faciundis praeesset,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 59, § 144:

reipublicae,

Sall. J. 110, 6:

urbis,

Amm. 14, 7, 17.—

In partic., a legal t. t., a guardian, curator, trustee (of a minor, an imbecile, an absent person, etc.), Gai Inst. 1, 200; Dig. libb. 26 et 27; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 102; Sen. Contr. 1, 2; Quint. 7, 4, 11; Jul. Cap. Vit. M. Aur. 10 et saep.; v. Dict. of Antiq.

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.).

In gen.

Of living beings.

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.—

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.—

Of inanimate subjects.

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. —

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.—

In a hostile sense.

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.—

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.

dĕcŭrĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [decuria], to divide into decuriae.

Prop.:

equites decuriati, centuriati pedites,

Liv. 22, 38, v. preced. art.—Esp. to divide the people into companies or clubs for purposes of bribery and corruption:

servorum delectus habebatur... cum vicatim homines conscriberentur, decuriarentur,

Cic. Sest. 15:

decuriasse Plancium, conscripsisse, etc.,

id. Planc. 18, 45; cf. ib. 19, 47; id. Phil. 7, 6, 18; id. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 5, and v. decuriatio.—

Trop.:

vertex incrementis lustralibus decuriatus,

i. e. of a man ten lustres old, Mart. Cap. 1, p. 1.

dĕcŭrĭo, ōnis (also DECURES decuriones, Paul. ex Fest. p. 71, 22, and 75, 9 Müll.;

and DECVRIONVS, the same,

ib. 49, 16), m. [id.], the head or chief of a decuria, a decurion. The name was first given by Romulus to the head of the tenth part of a curia (cf. Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, p. 354). In the army, the commander of a decuria of cavalry, Varr. L. L. 5, § 91 Müll.; Veget. Mil. 2, 14; Caes. B. C. 1, 23; 1, 13; Tac. A. 13, 40; id. H. 2, 29. After the extension of the Roman dominion, the members of the senate of the municipia and the colonies were called decuriones, Dig. 50, 16, 239; 50, 2; Cod. Just. 10, 31; Cic. Sest. 4, 10; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; id. Clu. 14, 41; Vulg. Marc. 15, 43.—Sometimes i. q. praefectus, applied to the overseer of the persons employed in any duty about the court, e. g. a head-chamberlain:

cubiculariorum,

Suet. Dom. 17, PROCVLVS DECVRIO GERMANORVM (i. e. custodum corporis) TI. GERMANICI, Inscr. Orell. 2923.

ĕpīscŏpus, i, m., = episkopos, an overseer, superintendent.

In gen., Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 7; Inscr. Orell. 4024 (in Cic. Att. 7, 11 fin., written as Greek).—

In partic., a bishop (eccl. Lat.), Amm. 15, 7, 7; Vulg. Phil. 1, 1 al.

exactor, ōris, m. [id.; cf. also exactio].

A driver-out, expeller:

regum (Junii Valeriique),

Liv. 9, 17, 11.—

A demander, exactor (cf.: redemptor, manceps, magister; also: publicanus, portitor).

In gen.: operis, i. e. an overseer, superintendent, enforcer of any kind of labor, Col. 3, 13, 10; cf. Liv. 45, 37; so,

assiduus studiorum,

Quint. 1, 3, 14; cf.:

asper recte loquendi,

id. 1, 7, 34:

molestissimus sermonis Latini,

Suet. Gramm. 22:

supplicii,

an executioner, Liv. 2, 5; cf. Tac. A. 11, 37, and 3, 14 fin.; cf. Vulg. Luc. 12, 58.—

In partic., a collector of taxes, a tax gatherer, * Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4; Liv. 28, 25, 9; Firm. 4, 3 al.; Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 8;

or of other debts due the state,

ib. 22, 1, 33. (Not in Cic.; but cf. exactio.)