The corpus record — Latin

moderamen

moderamen · n

a means of managing

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Where it lives

Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Contra Symmachum 4 · 3.33/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Metamorphoses 6 · 0.77/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mŏdĕrāmen — Lewis & Short

mŏdĕrāmen, ĭnis, n.id.,

I a means of managing or governing, e. g. a rudder, helm (poet. and in post-class. prose).

I Lit.

A Innixus moderamine navis, Ov. M. 15, 726; so in plur., id. ib. 3, 644.—

B Management, direction, control: equorum, Ov. M. 2, 48.—

II Trop.: rerum, the helm, i. e. the management of affairs, the government of the state, Ov. M. 6, 677; also, a means of moderating, mitigating, controlling: verum serenitas nostra certum moderamen invenit, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 64.

In the wild

moderamine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.7
moderamine Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.67
moderamine Silius Italicus, Punica 7.15
moderamine Ausonius, Cupido cruciatur 1.61
moderamine Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.831
moderamina Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.188

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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