Custos
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Latin-English
cust|os, -ōdis. (ˈkus.tos) comm.
- A guard.
[Proto-Indo-European *kusdho-sd- "sitting over something hidden".]
Loci
- αʹ Cicero, De Domo Sua 57.144:
| Quocirca te, Capitoline, quem propter beneficia populus Romanus Optimum, propter vim Maximum nominavit, teque, Iuno Regina, et te, custos urbis, Minerva, quae semper adiutrix consiliorum meorum, testis laborum exstitisti, precor atque quaeso.... | And so, Capitoline, I pray and beg of you, whom the Roman people have named Best because of your kindnesses and Greatest because of your power, and you, Queen Juno, and you, Minerva, guardian of the city, who have always stood forth as helper in my decisions and witness to my labors... |
- βʹ Vergil, Aeneis 9.150-153:
| ————— ————— —— tĕnĕ|brās ĕt ĭ|nērtĭă | fūrtă Pāllădĭ|ī cāe|sīs lā|tē cūs|tōdĭbŭs | ārcīs nē tĭmĕ|ānt, nĕc ĕ|quī cāe|cā cōn|dēmŭr ĭn | ālvō |
They needn't fear the night, and the cowardly theft of the Palladium after guards all over the citadel were slain; nor will we hide ourselves in the secret belly of a horse. |
