circumscribere: moderari, temperare, modum facere alicui rei (to set a measure to anything): coercere (to keep within limits or bounds; to keep in check): reprimere (to bring back to its former limits). To restrict to anything, temperare aliquid aliqua re: to restrict anybody, aliquem coercere, continere, circumscribere (in his liberty, mode of living, etc.): aliquem parce habere, aliquem arte colere (in diet; the latter, Sall., Jug., 85, 35): in breve tempus conjicere aliquem (in time, Ter., Hec., 5, 4, 2). To restrict one’s self, parce vivere, sumtus circumcidere, modum facere sumtibus, impensas corripere (in respect of expense; the latter, Suet., Tib., 34): modeste, or continenter, or sobrie vivere; se cohibere (in one’s mode of living).