μετρι-άζω,
to be moderate, keep measure, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1183 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.76, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1298a40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινι in a thing, [[[prev. work] 1314b33: with Preps., μ. ἐν ταῖς εὐπραξίαις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.162; περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 784e; περὶ τὸ δίκαιον 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 13.13; πρὸς λύπην 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 603e; ἐπί τινι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. ἐν τῷ προθύμῳ show but moderate zeal, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.3.5: with _genitive_, μ. τῶν παθῶν 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 10p.436M. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 of disease, remit, abate, opposed to παροξύνεσθαι, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.711. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 of persons, to be 'only middling', to be unwell, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 1037, LXX.Neh.2.2 ] LXX+4th c.BC+], poetical de herb.[[ 3. ] Refs]
__4 οἱ μετριάζοντες, ={οἱ μέτριον τὸ αἰδοῖον ἔχοντες}, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 718a24. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 jest, [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 64. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II transitive, moderate, regulate, control, ὅρκοις μ. ψυχὴν νέαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 692b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τὴν βασιλείαν] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1313a26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τι ἡμῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐκφορίου reduce our rent, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 433.12 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὴν τιμωρίαν [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.41. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]