Meaning of custodia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. protection, safekeeping
   declension-1
2. custody, guardianship
   declension-1
3. prisoner
   Late-Latin, declension-1

Equivalents

Examples

“Quid quod tū tē ipse in cūstōdiam dedistī, quod vītandae suspīciōnis causā ad M. Lepidum tē habitāre velle dīxistī?”

What about the fact that you surrendered yourself into custody, the fact that you said you wanted to live at the house of Manius Lepidus for the sake of avoiding suspicion?

“Militum autem consilium fuit ut custodias occiderent, ne quis cum enatasset, effugeret.”

And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape. (Douay-Rheims)

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