I.a manager, ruler, governor, director.
I. Lit. (class.): “rector et moderator tanti operis,” Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 90: “dierum,” id. Tusc. 1, 28, 70: “equorum,” Ov. M. 4, 245: “arundinis,” an angler, id. ib. 8, 856: pectinis unci, a wool-comber, Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 381: “juventae,” a tutor, Mart. 2, 90, 1: “vitae,” Nazar. Pan. ad Const. 15.—
II. He who moderates: “nec moderator adest,” i. e. who could moderate, put a limit to the evil, Ov. M. 7, 561; Tac. A. 1, 49.