I.a due mingling, mixture, or tempering, temperature, temper (poet. and in post - Aug. prose for the class. temperatio): “in quo (aere) aequalis omnium temperies fuit,” Plin. 34, 2, 3, § 8: “magna et in colore temperies,” id. 2, 78, 80, § 190; 16, 11, 22, § 54: “ubi temperiem sumpsere umorque calorque,” Ov. M. 1, 430: “nix tegit alta duas (caeli zonas): totidem inter utramque locavit, Temperiemque dedit, mixtā cum frigore flammā,” i. e. temperateness, moderate temperature, id. ib. 1, 51: “caeli,” id. P. 2, 7, 71; Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 3: “caeli mira temperies, verno tepori maxime similis,” Curt. 4, 7, 17; 9, 1, 11; cf.: “auctumnus mitis inter juvenemque senemque Temperie medius,” Ov. M. 15, 211: “temperie blandarum captus aquarum,” id. ib. 4, 344: “temperiem servant oculi,” a due proportion, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 217: “tranquilla morum,” Stat. S. 2. 6, 48: “temperies (docet), ut casta petas,” moderation, temperance, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 103.
tempĕrĭes , ēi, f. tempero,