moderamen
σφάγιον ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ, γυναικεῖον ἀμφικεῖσθαι μόρον → my wife's death, lies upon me, bringing destruction after death | Is it that now there waits in store for me, my own wife's death to crown my misery
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mŏdĕrāmen: ĭnis, n. id.,
I a means of managing or governing, e. g. a rudder, helm (poet. and in post-class. prose).
I Lit.
A Innixus moderamine navis, Ov. M. 15, 726; so in plur., id. ib. 3, 644.—
B Management, direction, control: equorum, Ov. M. 2, 48.—
II Trop.: rerum, the helm, i. e. the management of affairs, the government of the state, Ov. M. 6, 677; also, a means of moderating, mitigating, controlling: verum serenitas nostra certum moderamen invenit, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 64.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
mŏdĕrāmĕn,¹⁶ ĭnis, n. (moderor),
1 ce qui sert à diriger, gouvernail : Ov. M. 15, 726
2 direction, conduite : Ov. M. 2, 48
