RETAIN Copy link • RETAINTo keep, servare: conservare (to keep, preserve, not lose; opposed to rejicere): alicujus rei detrimentum facere nullum, nullam facere in aliqua re jacturam (not suffer or sustain a loss; e.g., in one’s credit or authority, consequently to retain it): to retain anybody, aliquem tenere or retinere (not allow him to go): hospitio aliquem excipere or accipere (to take or keep him under one’s roof, etc): cenae adhibere (at a meal): to retain a custom [Vid :, CUSTOM]: to retain the magistracy, manere in magistratu (opposed to magistratu abire). To retain its color, *colorem servare or retinere. To keep in pay (e.g., soldiers, etc.), alere (milites, exercitum): mercede conducere (to hire; e.g., milites): mercede arcessere (of soldiers from a different or foreign country, e.g., Germanos; Vid: Caes., B.G., 1, 31, init.).