continentia

1.

contĭnentĭa, ae, f. [contineo].

I.

A holding back, repressing.

* A.

Lit.:

(crepitūs ventris),

Suet. Claud. 32 fin. —

B.

Trop. (acc. to contineo, I. B. 2. b., and continens, B.), a briding, restraining of one's passions and desires, abstemiousness, continence, temperance, moderation, enkrateia (the common signif.; most freq. in Cic.; it is diff. from abstinentia, v. in h. v.;

opp. libido): continentia est, per quam cupiditas consilii gubernatione regitur,

Cic. Inv. 2, 54, 164; id. Off. 2, 24, 86; cf. Quint. 5, 10, 121:

conferte hujus libidines cum illius continentiā,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 52, § 115; cf.:

ubi pro continentiā et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere,

Sall. C. 2, 5;

connected with modestia,

Caes. B. G. 7, 52; cf. Quint. 2, 21, 3; 3, 7, 15 al.—

II.

(Acc. to contineo, I. B. 3., and continens, C.) The contents of a work (only late Lat.):

operis,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 12, § 2; Hier. in Isa. 5, 20 init.; 5, 23, 11; so the title of the work of Fulgentius: De Expositione Vergilianae Continentiae, etc.—

* III.

(Acc. to contineo, II., and continens, A. 1.) Contiguity, proximity:

regionum (just before: cohaerentia regionum),

Macr. S. 5, 15, 5.

2.

contĭnentĭa, ium, n., v. contineo, P. a.