custodes
Americannoun
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Interesting developments in America’s elect-your-id experiment, as the shining city upon a hill runs up against that age-old political question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 2020
Independent policing of the news has a natural appeal, but it raises the question posed in Juvenal’s Satires: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2018
His critics would say that another piece of Latin would be appropriate in view of the Bank’s new powers: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes – Who guards the guards themselves?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2015
In its single literary flourish, the report prefaced its chronology of the Iran and contra operations with an apt quotation from the 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From Time Magazine Archive
However this may be, the name capellanus was generally applied to those who were in charge of sacred relics: such officials were also known as custodes, martyrarii, cubicularii.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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