μετριάζω

metriazo

to be moderate, keep measure

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Politics 3
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Book IV 1
Chapter 14 1297b35–1299a2

1298a40
Book V 1
Chapter 11 1313a15–1315b10

1314b33
Book VII 1
Chapter 1 1323a14–1324a4

1323b4
Generation of Animals 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 7 718a17–34

718a24
Book II 1
Chapter 4 737b8–741a5

738a27
Poetics 1
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Chapter 23 1459a17–1459b6

1459a34
Rhetoric 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 17 1391a20–1391b6

1391a27

Dictionary (LSJ)

μετριάζω, 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 CA 10p.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. GA 718a24. 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.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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