moderamen
From LSJ
Μεγάλοι δὲ λόγοι μεγάλας πληγὰς τῶν ὑπεραύχων ἀποτίσαντες γήρᾳ τὸ φρονεῖν ἐδίδαξαν → The great words of the arrogant pay the penalty by suffering great blows, and teach one to reason in old age
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.
