Lewis Short
mŏdĕrāmen (noun N) : id.
* A means of managing or governing, e. g. a rudder, helm (poet. and in post-class. prose).
* Lit.
* Innixus moderamine navis, Ov. M. 15, 726; so in plur., id. ib. 3, 644.
* Trop.: rerum, the helm, i. e. the management of affairs, the government of the state, Ov. M. 6, 677; also, a means of moderating, mitigating, controlling: verum serenitas nostra certum moderamen invenit, Cod. Th. 11, 30, 64.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary