The corpus record — Latin

versabilis

versabilis · adj

movable

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Where it lives

De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Res Gestae 13 · 1.02/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

versābĭlis — Lewis & Short

versābĭlis, e, adj.verso,

I movable, mobile; changeable, mutable, versatile (postAug.; cf.: mutabilis, variabilis).

I Lit.: aër, Sen. Q. N. 6, 16, 4: repagulum, of a cage, Amm. 19, 6, 4: acies, Curt. 4, 13, 32. —

II Trop.: omnis condicio, Sen. Tranq. 11, 8: fortuna, Curt. 5, 8, 15: femina, Amm. 16, 8, 4: ad momentum omne, id. 15, 5, 30.

In the wild

versabilibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.6.4
versabilem Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.11.10
versabilis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.26
versabilis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.5.19
versabilem Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.13.32
versabiles Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.30

6 of 16 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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