1) to be self-controlled, continent
1a) to exhibit self-government, conduct, one's self temperately
1b) in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 2:339, 196
G1467
Middle voice from G1468; to exercise self restraint (in diet and chastity): - can([-not]) contain, be temperate.
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University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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