I.lightness, as to weight.
I. Lit. (rare): “plumarum,” Lucr. 3, 387; id. 4, 745: “armorum,” Caes. B. G. 5, 34: “nulli fruticum levitas major,” Plin. 13, 22, 42, § 123.—*
B. Transf., poet., movableness, mobility: “Termine, post illud levitas tibi libera non est: Qua positus fueris in statione, mane,” Ov. F. 2, 673.—
II. Trop.
A. Light-mindedness, changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy, levity (freq. and class.): “quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius?” Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9: “temere assentientium,” id. Ac. 2, 38, 120: “in populari ratione,” id. Brut. 27, 103: “mobilitas et levitas animi,” Caes. B. G. 2, 1: “ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est,” lightness of mind, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: “amatoriis levitatibus dediti,” frivolities, id. Fin. 1, 18, 62: “manet in rebus temere congestis levitas,” Quint. 10, 3, 17: “contemnamus igitur omnis ineptias—quod enim lenius huic levitati nomen inponam,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 95.—
B. In partic., of speech, shallowness, superficialness (rare): “opinionis,” Cic. N. D. 2, 17, 45.
