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inconstantia

inconstantia · f

inconstancy

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Where it lives

In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 2 · 4.45/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 4 · 2.64/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
de Natura Deorum 4 · 1.12/10k
Lucullus 2 · 1.11/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 42 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

inconstantĭa — Lewis & Short

inconstantĭa, ae, f.inconstans,

I inconstancy, changeableness, fickleness (class.).

I Of persons: quid est inconstantia, mobilitate, levitate, cum singulis hominibus, tum vero universo senatui turpius? Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9: levitate implicata, id. Vatin. 1, 3: fama inconstantiae, id. Fam. 1, 9: inconstantiae notam habere, Plin. ap. Trogas, 11, 52, 114, § 276: nemo doctus umquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse, Cic. Att. 16, 7, 3; id. N. D. 3, 14.—

II Of inanim. and abstr. things: fulgoris, Plin. 37, 13, 76, § 199: artis, id. 7, 49, 50, § 162: mensurae, id. 6, 26, 30, § 124: frontis ac luminum, Quint. 9, 3, 101: mutabilitasque mentis, Cic. Tusc. 4, 35, 76; id. Dom. 2.

In the wild

inconstantia Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.43.p1
inconstantia Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 135
inconstantia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.20.4
inconstantiam Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.8.6
inconstantia Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 4
inconstantia Tacitus, Historiae 1.19

6 of 78 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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