The corpus record — Latin

moderator

moderator · m

a manager, ruler, governor, director

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Where it lives

Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Orator 2 · 1.08/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Republica 2 · 0.92/10k
Res Gestae 11 · 0.86/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mŏdĕrātor — Lewis & Short

mŏdĕrātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a manager, ruler, governor, director.

I Lit. (class.): rector et moderator tanti operis, Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 90: dierum, id. Tusc. 1, 28, 70: equorum, Ov. M. 4, 245: arundinis, an angler, id. ib. 8, 856: pectinis unci, a wool-comber, Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 381: juventae, a tutor, Mart. 2, 90, 1: vitae, Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 15.—

II He who moderates: nec moderator adest, i. e. who could moderate, put a limit to the evil, Ov. M. 7, 561; Tac. A. 1, 49.

In the wild

moderator Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.561
moderator Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.1248
moderatoresque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.23.11
moderatoris Minucius Felix, Octavius 17.5
moderator Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.70.p1
moderator Cicero, Orator 123

6 of 58 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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