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, ἐγκράτεια (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.
