temperantia

Greek — took the Latin name temperantia in Cicero's rhetorical and philosophical works, which set the style for later usage in the West.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Cicero's speeches employ laudatio and vituperatio, in which, among the four virtues, temperantia (with its antitheses) receives by far the greatest attention, not only because accusations of luxuria and avaritia had long proved most effective in arousing indignatio and odium, but also because Cicero sincerely believed that these were the vices most typical of Rome and most dangerous to the welfare of the Republic.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Cicero, as part of his attempt to give Rome a philosophical vo - cabulary, suggested several Latin renderings for sō - phrosynē — temperantia, moderatio, modestia, and frugalitas (Tusculan Disputations 3.8) — of which tem - perantia became the most popular, although by no means the only accepted equivalent.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

In spite of enormous differences in style and historical method — in spite, even, of Sallust's and Tacitus 'reac - tion against Ciceronian precedents, all three of the great Roman historians focus attention on the vitia principum as the source of decay in the state and recommend temperantia, moderatio, or some other aspect of sōphrosynē as a cure for the nation's ills.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

His praise of Pompey's temperantia, of the pudicitia of Caelius, and the clementia of Caesar was imitated by generations of orators and historians, while his great sequences of denunciatory speeches, the

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Item nonne videmus quosdam homines utriusque sexus in conjugali castitate viventes sine querela, et tamen vel haereticos vel Paganos, vel etiam in vera fide et vera ecclesia sic tepidos, ut eos miremur meretricum et histrionum subito conversorum, non solum sapientia et temperantia sed etiam fide, spe et charitate superari.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Qua illa temperantia, qua patientia, qua etiam constantia novissimam valetudinem tulit!

A Handbook for Latin Clubs Susan Paxson

As one exponent puts it: "Debitum semper est erga alterum: sed actus rationis et passiones interiores sunt: et ideo prudentia quæ perficit rationem, sicut fortitudo et temperantia quæ regulant passiones, dicuntur virtutes ad nos."

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The pivotal point about which such investigation would turn is a collection of 200 ascetic maxims (Peri nepheos kai aretes, De temperantia et virtute) which Migne, loc.cit. 1479-1544, attributes to Hesychius of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Est enim jejunium aliud nihil, quam abstinentia et temperantia piorum, disciplina item, custodia, et castigatio carnis nostrae, pro necessitate praesenti suscepta, qua humiliamur coram Deo, et carni sua fomenta detrahimus, quo facilius libentiusque spiritui pareat.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889