mŏdŭlus — Lewis & Short
mŏdŭlus, i, m.dim.modus,
I a small measure, a measure (not in Cic. or Cæs.).
I Lit.:
relinquitur de numero, quem faciunt alii majorem, alii minorem, nulli enim hujus moduli naturales,Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 20:
ab imo Ad summum moduli bipedalis,two feet high, Hor. S. 2, 3, 309.—Prov.:
metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede,i. e. to be content with his own condition, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 98.—
2 In archit., a module:
si Dorici generis erunt columnae, dimetiantur earum altitudines cum capitulis in partes quindecim, et ex eis partibus una constituatur, et fiat modulus,Vitr. 5, 9, 3; 3, 3, 7; 4, 3, 3 sq.—
3 In aqueducts, a watermeter:
est autem calix modulus aeneus, qui rivo, vel castello induitur: huic fistulae applicantur,Front. Aquaed. 36.—
4 Rhythmical measure, rhythm, music, time, metre, mode, melody:
moduli Lydii, Dorii, Phrygii,Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 204:
verborum,Gell. 5, 1, 1:
tibiarum modulis in proeliis uti,id. 1, 11, 1.—
II Trop.:
cur non ponderibus modulisque suis ratio utitur?Hor. S. 1, 3, 78: ganeones, quibus modulus est vitae culina, measure, Varr. ap. Non. 119, 11.