asservo

as-servo ( ads-, Fleck., B. and K., Weissenb., Müller), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to watch over, keep, preserve, observe, guard ( carefully ) a person or thing (very freq. of things kept in custody;

in the class. per. mostly in prose): adservatote haec, sultis, navales pedes (i. e. mercenarii),

Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 75:

tabulae neglegentius adservatae,

Cic. Arch. 5:

corpora (mortuorum) in conditorio,

Plin. 7, 16, 16, § 75:

ignem in ferulā,

id. 7, 56, 57, § 198:

thynni sale adservantur,

id. 9, 15, 18, § 48;

and, in sale adservari,

id. 9, 25, 41, § 80:

Hunc quoque adserva ipsum, ne quo abitat,

watch, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 72:

sinito ambulare, si foris, si intus volent, Sed uti adserventur magnā diligentiā,

id. Capt. 1, 2, 6:

acerrime adservabimus,

we shall very closely watch, Cic. Att. 10, 16:

portas murosque,

Caes. B. C. 1, 21:

arcem,

Curt. 9, 7:

ut vinctum te adservet domi,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 98:

cura adservandum vinctum,

Ter. And. 5, 2, 24; so id. Heaut. 3, 3, 32; 4, 4, 12:

imperat dum res judicetur, hominem ut adservent,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 22; 2, 5, 30:

ut domi meae te adservarem, rogāsti,

id. Cat. 1, 8, 19:

Vitrubium in carcerem adservari jussit,

Liv. 8, 20; 40, 23; 27, 19 fin.;

6, 30: sacra fideli custodiā,

id. 5, 40:

puella Adservanda nigerrimis diligentius uvis,

Cat. 17, 16.