EXCESS Copy link • EXCESScircumlocution by the adjectives nimius or extremus (e.g., excess of joy, nimia laetitia): quod nimium est (e.g., vehementius offendit, quam id quod videtur parum; Cic.), or by quod superest, superat or (often of faulty excess) redundat: the deficiency of anything in the one is equal to the excess of it in the other, quantum alteri deest alicujus rei, tantum alteri superest: there was no deficiency of this kind of ornament in Antonius, nor excess of it in Crassus, neque in Antonio deerat hic ornatus orationis, neque in Crasso redundabat: to be filled to excess with anything, redundare aliqua re: excess of ornament makes a style tawdry, exornationes si crebrae collocabuntur, oblitam reddunt orationem (Cic.) [☞ exsuperantia is only a great amount of what is good, redundantia, an excess of what is bad: ☞ not nimietas or excessus] to be in excess, redundare (mostly, but not always, of a faulty excess). Excess (moral), intemperantia: libidinum intemperantia (want of moderation in the enjoyment of coarse sensuality and desires, opposed to temperantia): libido: libidines: voluptates libidinosae (excess in sensual enjoyment, especially in love): licentia (arbitrary excess in external manners and order): luxuria (extravagance, luxury in our mode of living): flagitium (an immoral act). All possible excesses, effusae in omni intemperantia libidines: to commit or be guilty of excesses, *licentius, effrenatius vivere; se effundere in libidinibus. To commit excesses, evagari; non temperare sibi; in anything, immodicum, nimium esse in re; modum excedere or modum non tenere in re; effundi in rem or ad rem; se effundere in aliqua re (e.g., in aliqua libidine, Cic.).