modum facere alicui rei: aliquem circumscribere: coartare: coercere. To stint one as to time, in speaking, in breve tempus conjicere aliquem (Tac.): to stint one’s self for time, sibi temperare in dicendo, in scribendo (after Cic.): to stint one in food, arte colere aliquem (Sall., Jug., 85, 35); parce habere aliquem; alicui cibum subducere or deducere: to stint one’s self, parce vivere; sumtus circumcidere; modum facere sumptibus (to contract one’s expenses; also, impensas corripere, Suet.): to stint one’s self in food, parce fraudare se victu suo; fraudare ventrem (☞ defraudare genium suum is rather poetical; opposed to defraudare nihil sibi, Petronius, 69, 2).