fluctŭo — Lewis & Short
fluctŭo, āvi, ātum, or (perh. not anteAug.) fluctŭor, ātus, 1 (pleraque utroque modo efferuntur:
I
fluctuatur, fluctuat,Quint. 9, 3, 7), v. n. fluctus, to move in the manner of waves, i. e. to wave, rise in waves, undulate, to move to and fro, be driven hither and thither (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf.: fluo, fluito).
I Lit.
(a) Form fluctuo:
nunc valide fluctuat mare,Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 14:
ita fluctuare video vehementer mare,id. ib. 4, 1, 12;
4, 2, 11: quadriremem in salo fluctuantem reliquerat,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 91:
quid tam commune quam mare fluctuantibus, litus ejectis?id. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:
agebatur huc illuc Galba vario turbae fluctuantis impulsu,Tac. H. 1, 40; cf. Gell. 10, 6, 2:
fluctuet aër,Lucr. 6, 367: directaeque acies ac late fluctuat omnis Aere renidenti tellus, waves (in the light) with gleaming brass, Verg. G. 2, 281:
fluctuant insulae,Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209:
seges,Sen. Herc. Fur. 699.—In mal. part., Arn. 2, 73; Auct. Priap. 19, 4; cf. fluctus, I. —
(b) Form fluctuor:
deprehensi in mari Syrtico modo in sicco relinquuntur, modo fluctuantur,are driven about by the waves, Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:
Delos diu fluctuata,Plin. 4, 12, 22, § 66:
quaedam insulae semper fluctuantur,id. 2, 94, 95, § 209 Jan.:
lignum in longitudinem fluctuatur,i. e. floats about, id. 16, 38, 73, § 186:
lapidem e Scyro insula integrum fluctuari tradunt, eundem comminutum mergi,id. 36, 16, 26, § 130.—
II Trop., to be restless, unquiet, uncertain, doubtful; to rage, swell; to waver, hesitate, vacillate, fluctuate.
(a) Form fluctuo: Eu. Potin, ut animo sis tranquillo? Ch. Quid si animus fluctuat? Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 49; cf.:
animo nunc huc, nunc fluctuat illuc,Verg. A. 10, 680:
mens animi tantis fluctuat ipsa malis,Cat. 65, 4:
magnis curarum fluctuat undis,id. 64, 62; cf.:
magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu,Verg. A. 4, 532; Anthol. Lat. 1, 178, 150:
fluctuat ira intus,Verg. A. 12, 527:
irarum fluctuat aestu,id. ib. 4, 564; so, curarum, 8, 19; Lucr. 4, 1077; Cat. 64, 62:
ingenti Telamon fluctuat ira,Val. Fl. 3, 637:
fluctuante rege inter spem metumque,Liv. 42, 59, 8:
totam aciem suo pavore fluctuantem, etc.,Curt. 3, 10, 6:
in suo decreto,Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 29:
fluctuantem sententiam confirmare,id. Att. 1, 20, 2:
genus orationis, quod appellamus fluctuans et dissolutum, eo quod sine nervis et articulis fluctuat huc et illuc,Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16:
omnia et citata et fluctuantia,Sen. Contr. 3, 19.—
(b) Form fluctuor:
utrius populi mallet victoriam esse, fluctuatus animo fuerat,Liv. 23, 33, 3:
fluctuatus animo est, utrum, etc.,id. 32, 13, 4; 36, 10, 4; Curt. 4, 12, 21; Val. Max. 8, 1, 2: vita fluctuatur per adversa et difficilia, Sen. Ep. 111: semper inter spem et metum fluctuari, Aug. ap. Suet. Claud. 4:
ambrosia (herba) vagi nominis est et circa alias herbas fluctuati,Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28.