CONTAIN Copy link • CONTAINTo hold (as a vessel, etc.), continere. complecti: comprehendere: habere (e.g., quid tandem habuit liber iste, quod, etc., what after all did the book contain, which, etc., Vid: Cic., Brut., 4, 14): to be contained in anything, aliqua re contineri; in aliqua re inesse: to be contained in philosophical works, philosophorum libris contineri, (Cic.). Restrain; to contain one’s self, se tenere, cohibere, coercere or continere, potentem sui or mentis esse: compotem esse sui, or mentis, or animi: in potestate mentis esse: to be hardly able to contain oneself, vix se continere posse, quin, etc., vix temperare sibi posse, quin, etc.: I can hardly contain myself, vix comprimor, quin, etc. (Vid: Plaut., Most., 1, 3, 46): to be unable to contain one’s self, sui non potentem or sui impotentem esse: sui non compotem esse; also non apud se esse (to be beside one’s self; e.g., prae iracundia, not to contain one’s anger): to contain one’s anger, iram reprimere: not to contain one’s anger, ira teneri: not to be able to contain one’s anger, impotentem esse irae: to contain anybody in his duty (Spenser), coercere aliquem et in officio continere; to contain one’s tears, lacrimas tenere: fletum reprimere: lacrimis temperare (Cic.): one’s laughter, risum tenere, rontinere. Vid: RESTRAIN.