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.