Modulus, Vitru. A measure that carpenters vse. Modulus. Plin. Measure in musick: a song: modulation.Melleis modulis resonant aues. Apul. The birdes sing in sweete melodie.Organici moduli. Capella.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mŏdŭlus, i, m.dim. [modus], a small measure, a measure (not in Cic. or Cæs.). I.Lit.: relinquitur de numero, quem faciunt alii majorem, alii minorem, nulli enim hujus moduli naturales, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 20: ab imo Ad summum moduli bipedalis,
two feet high
, Hor. S. 2, 3, 309.—Prov.: metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede, i. e.
to be content with his own condition
, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 98.—2. In archit., a module: si Dorici generis erunt columnae, dimetiantur earum altitudines cum capitulis in partes quindecim, et ex eis partibus una constituatur, et fiat modulus, Vitr. 5, 9, 3; 3, 3, 7; 4, 3, 3 sq.—3. In aqueducts, a watermeter: est autem calix modulus aeneus, qui rivo, vel castello induitur: huic fistulae applicantur, Front. Aquaed. 36.—4.Rhythmical measure, rhythm, music, time, metre, mode, melody: moduli Lydii, Dorii, Phrygii, Plin. 7, 56, 57, 204: verborum, Gell. 5, 1, 1: tibiarum modulis in proeliis uti, id. 1, 11, 1.—II.Trop.: cur non ponderibus modulisque suis ratio utitur?Hor. S. 1, 3, 78: ganeones, quibus modulus est vitae culina, measure, Varr. ap. Non. 119, 11.
