(1) God-like virtue, or reason impelling as well as directing.

(2) The highest human virtue, expressed by Temperance [Greek: sophrosynae]--appetite and passion perfectly harmonized with reason.

(3) Continence [Greek: egkrateia] or the mastery of reason, after a struggle.

(4) Incontinence, the mastery of appetite or passion, but not without a struggle.

(5) Vice, reason perverted so as to harmonize entirely with appetite or passion.