I.intemperateness, inclemency.
I. Lit., of the weather: “calamitates intemperiasque prohibessis,” Cato, R. R. 141. —
II. Trop., folly, madness, insanity: Quae te intemperiae tenent? what storm has got hold of you? i. e. what are you raving about? Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 24: “larvae hunc atque intemperiae insaniaeque agitant senem,” id. Aul. 1, 1, 32; 4, 4, 15; id. Ep. 3, 4, 39: intemperiarum pleni, disquietude, Gell. praef. § 19.