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|lshtext=<b>mŏdĕro</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [[modus]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[moderate]] a [[thing]] (in [[verb]]. fin. [[only]] anteand [[post]]-[[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With acc.: [[neque]] tuum te [[ingenium]] moderat, Pac. ap. Non. 471, 7.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With dat.: ego voci moderabo meae, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 115.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to [[regulate]], Dig. 3, 5, 14: ita res moderatur, ut, etc., ib. 23, 3, 39.—Hence, mŏdĕrātus, a, um, P. a., [[keeping]] [[within]] [[due]] bounds, observing [[moderation]], [[moderate]] (Ciceron.).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of persons: moderati senes tolerabilem agunt senectutem, Cic. Sen. 3, 7: in omnibus vitae partibus [[moderatus]] ac [[temperans]], id. Font. 14, 40: moderatum esse in re aliquā, id. Phil. 2, 16, 40; cf.: Gracchis cupidine victoriae [[haud]] [[satis]] [[moderatus]] [[animus]], Sall. J. 42, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of things, moderated, kept [[within]] [[due]] [[measure]] or bounds, [[moderate]]: [[convivium]] moderatum [[atque]] honestum, Cic. Mur. 6, 13: [[ventus]], Ov. Tr. 4, 4, 57: [[mores]], Cic. Fam. 12, 27, 1: [[otium]], id. Brut. 2, 8: [[doctrina]], id. Mur. 29, 60: [[oratio]], id. de Or. 2, 8, 34.—Comp.: [[quando]] [[annona]] moderatior? Vell. 2, 126, 3. —Sup.: moderatissimus [[sensus]], Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 5.—Hence, adv.: mŏdĕ-rātē, [[with]] [[moderation]], [[moderately]] (Ciceron.): [[moderate]] [[dictum]], Cic. Font. 10, 31: omnia humana [[placate]] et [[moderate]] feramus, id. Fam. 6, 1, 4: [[moderate]] et clementer jus dicere, Caes. B. C. 3, 20.—Comp.: moderatius id volunt fieri, Cic. Fin. 1, 1, 2. —Sup.: res moderatissime constituta, Cic. Leg. 3, 5, 12.