Moderate means D- to take on a serious mode.
The writer used the word 'moderate' to make a comparison between those people who would lead a serious life without any excess with the group of people who would do whatever they wanted to fight against the Black Death.
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d. Latin implicare
Employ would be in the modern dictionary, which is why I chose d.
