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μετρι-άζω ,
A.to be moderate, keep measure, S.Ph.1183 (lyr.), Th.1.76, Arist.Pol.1298a40; τινι in a thing, ib.1314b33: with Preps., “μ. ἐν ταῖς εὐπραξίαις” D.20.162; “περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα” Pl.Lg.784e; “περὶ τὸ δίκαιον” D.H.13.13; “πρὸς λύπην” Pl.R.603e; “ἐπί τινι” Luc.Im.21; μ. ἐν τῷ προθύμῳ show but moderate zeal, Hdn.8.3.5: c. gen., “μ. τῶν παθῶν” Hierocl. in CA10p.436M.
2. of disease, remit, abate, opp. παροξύνεσθαι, Gal.16.711.
3. of persons, to be 'only middling', to be unwell, Men.1037, LXX Ne.2.2, Poet. de herb.3.
4. οἱ μετριάζοντες, = οἱ μέτριον τὸ αἰδοῖον ἔχοντες, Arist.GA718a24.
5. jest, Sch.Ar.V. 64.
II. trans., moderate, regulate, control, “ὅρκοις μ. ψυχὴν νέαν” Pl. Lg.692b; [τὴν βασιλείαν] Arist.Pol.1313a26; τι ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐκφορίου reduce our rent, PCair.Zen.433.12 (iii B. C.); “τὴν τιμωρίαν” Ph.1.41.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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