• TEMPERANCE

temperantia (general and habitual self-government): moderatio (the avoiding of excess, as an action): continentia (opposed to libido; command over all sensual desires): modestia (is an habitual preference of the modus, or true mean; the last three words are qualities): abstinentia (abstaining from desire for what is another’s). (The words are found in this connection and order.) temperantia et moderatio; moderatio et continentia; continentia et temperantia. Cic., Off., 3, 26, has moderatio continentiae et temperantiae.