Moderâmen, pen. prod. moderáminis, n. g. Idem quod Moderatio, Ouid.Moderation: temperance: guiding: gouernance.Ius & moderamen equorum.Ouid.Sceptra & rerum moderamen capere.Ouid.Sumere moderamina mundi. Claudi. To take the rule and gouernement of.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mŏdĕrāmen, ĭnis, n. [id.], a means of managing or governing, e. g. a rudder, helm (poet. and in post-class. prose). I.Lit.A. Innixus moderamine navis, Ov. M. 15, 726; so in plur., id. ib. 3, 644.—B.Management, direction, control: equorum, Ov. M. 2, 48.—II.Trop.: rerum, the helm, i. e. the management of affairs, the government of the state, Ov. M. 6, 677; also, a means of moderating, mitigating, controlling: verum serenitas nostra certum moderamen invenit, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 64.