imprisonment Copy link • imprisonment: expr. by vincŭla, less freq. carcer (cf. to imprison): to consign to perpetual gloom and i., aeternis tenebris vinculisque mandare, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, fin.: to be kept in i., in vinculis haberi, Sall. Cat. 51, extr.: cf. Verr. 4, 24, 59, mitto vincula, mitto carcerem, etc.: after one's release from i., emissus e carcere, cf. Cic. Pl. 12, fin.: also sometimes custōdia (often of a more lenient kind): to consign to i., in c. tradere, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 4; dare, id. Verr. 5, 27, 69.
IMPRISONMENT Copy link • IMPRISONMENTin custodia inclusio: captivitas (captivity). To be suffering imprisonment, in custodia haberi or servari; custodia teneri or retineri: to keep anybody in close imprisonment, aliquem clauso conclavi servare; aliquem clausum asservare: to release anybody from imprisonment, aliquem e custodia emittere: to deliver from imprisonment (by force), aliquem e custodia eripere: not to bear imprisonment in the house, (IMPROP.), durare in aedibus non posse.