Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Custodes

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CUSTO'DES. A general name given to those who have the care or guardianship of other persons or things; but employed in a more special sense to designate the officers who acted as scrutineers at the Comitia. Their duty consisted in receiving the votes (tabellae) as they were taken out of the balloting basket (cista) by the Diribitores, and in pricking off the result upon a tablet; whence the allusion of Horace, omne tulit punctum, &c. Cic. in Senat. Id. Agr. ii. 9. Varro, R. R. iii. 5. 18.