I.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.
as -servo (ads- , Fleck., B. and K., Weissenb., Müller), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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