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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
ABSTEMIOUSNESS, ABSTINENCE Copy link
• ABSTEMIOUSNESS, ABSTINENCE
moderatio (the avoiding upon principle of the too much, as an action): temperantia (general and habitual selfgovernment): continentia (opposed to libido, command over all sensual desires): modestia (is a habitual preference of the modus or true mean: the last three words art qualities): abstinentia (command over the desire for what is another’s). (The words are found in this connection and order.) temperantia et moderatio; moderatio et continentia; continentia et temperantis. Cic.., Off., 3, 26, has moderatio continentiae et temperantiae.