9. Measure—Standard—Limit—Moderation

_modum tenere, retinere_[1]_, servare, adhibere_—to observe

moderation, be moderate.

_omnia modice agere_—to be moderate in all things, commit no excess.

_modum facere, statuere, constituere alicui rei_ or _alicuius rei_—to

set a limit to a thing.

_modum transire_—to pass the limit.

_extra modum prodire_—to pass the limit.

_ultra modum_[2] _progredi_—to pass the limit.

_metiri, ponderare, aestimare, iudicare aliquid (ex) aliqua re_—to

measure something by the standard of something else; to make something

one's criterion.

_dirigere_ or _referre aliquid ad aliquam rem_—to measure something by

the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion.

_fines certos terminosque constituere_—to impose fixed limitations.

_terminis circumscribere aliquid_—to set bounds to a thing, limit it.

_moderatum, continentem esse_—to behave with moderation.

_moderatum se praebere_—to behave with moderation.

_temperantia uti_—to behave with moderation.

_moderationem, modum adhibere in aliqua re_—to show moderation in a

matter.

_moderari aliquid_ (Flacc. 5. 12)—to show moderation in a matter.

_modice ac sapienter_—with moderation and judgment.

_sine modo; nullo modo adhibito_—with no moderation.

_extra, praeter modum_—beyond all measure.

_mediocritatem tenere_ (Off. 1. 25. 89)—to observe the golden mean.

[1] In the original book is _retineri_. I transcribed this as

_retinere_, following the Latin text of the French edition

(_Phraséologie Latine_, translatation by Charles Pascal, 5th ed.,

1942, Librairie C. Klincksieck, p. 212).

[2] Only Livy and subsequent writers use _modum excedere_, and in the

same way _supra modum_.

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