He talks little, either of himself or of others; neither desiring his own praise, nor caring to utter blame.

He wonders at nothing, bears no malice, is no gossip.

His movements are slow, his voice deep, his diction stately (III.).
There is a nameless virtue, a mean between the two extremes of too much and too little ambition, or desire of honour; the reference being to smaller matters and to ordinary men.

The fact that both extremes are made terms of reproach, shows that there is a just mean; while each extreme alternately claims to be the virtue, as against the other, since there is no term to express the mean (IV.).
MILDNESS [Greek: praotaes] is a mean state with reference to Anger, although inclining to the defective side.

The exact mean, which has no current name, is that state wherein the agent is free from perturbation [Greek: atarachos], is not impelled by passion, but guided by reason; is angry when he ought, as he ought, with whom, and as long as, he ought: taking right measure of all the circumstances.