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. 865; so id. Heaut. 593; 734: 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.