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vărĭo , āvi, ātum, 1,
I.v.a. and n. varius.
I. Act., to diversify, variegate, change (class.).
A. Lit.: “(principia) omne genus gignunt variantque colores,Lucr. 2, 759: “maculis ortum (sol),Verg. G. 1, 441: “caeruleis corpora guttis,Ov. M. 4, 578: “tempora cani,id. ib. 12, 465: “capillos (gemma),id. Am. 1, 2, 41: “ubi caeruleum variabunt sidera caelum,id. F. 3, 449: “variare virgis et loris,to beat of all colors, black and blue, Plaut. Poen. prol. 26: “putrida pectora palmis,Cat. 64, 352: “vestes picto auro,Val. Fl. 3, 11: “variante se uvā,becoming colored, turning, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 189; for which mid.: “simulatque uva variari coeperit,Col. Arb. 12, 1.—In part. perf.: “vestis priscis hominum variata figuris,variegated, embroidered, Cat. 64, 50: “pluribus ille (anguis) notis variatam pingitur alvum,Luc. 9, 713: “arcus vix ullā variatus luce colorem,id. 4, 79: “eluere calculos nigros paulum candore variatos,Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 157.—Poet.: formas variatus in omnes, changed, metamorphosed, Ov. M. 12, 559.—
B. Trop., to cause to change, make different or various; to alter, change, vary, interchange, cause to alternate, etc.: “vocem variare et mutare,Cic. Or. 18, 59; so, “aliquid (with mutare),Gell. 14, 1, 9: “orationem variare et distinguere,Cic. de Or. 2, 9, 36: “ergo ille variabit (vocem) et mutabit,id. Or. 18, 59: “voluptatem (with distinguere),id. Fin. 1, 11, 38: “qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,Hor. A. P. 29: “in oratione multa summittere, variare, disponere,Quint. 2, 12, 10; cf. id. 2, 13, 8; 11, 3, 152: “cum timor atque ira in vicem sententias variassent,Liv. 2, 57, 2: “vices,Verg. A. 9, 164: “bellum variante fortunā eventum ferre,with varying success, Liv. 23, 5, 8: “et variebant secundae adversaeque res non fortunam magis quam animos hominum,id. 25, 1, 6: “fremitus variantis multitudinis fuit partim adsensu partim indignatione,id. 35, 31, 13: “ex vernā intemperie variante calores frigoraque,id. 22, 2, 10: “laborem otio, otium labore,Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 4: “variatis hominum sententiis,” i. e. various, at variance, Cic. Mil. 3, 8: “quae de Marcelli morte variant auctores,report differently, vary, Liv. 27, 27, 12; cf.: “certe variata memoria actae rei,id. 21, 28, 5.—Impers. pass.: “sitne ea (beata vita) in potestate sapientis, an, etc. ... in eo nonnumquam variari inter eos et dubitari videtur,Cic. Fin. 5, 5, 12: senatus consuli coeptus; “ibi cum sententiis variaretur,were of different opinions, Liv. 22, 60, 3; cf.: “variatum deinde proeliis,fought with varying success, Vell. 2, 51, 3: “nisi de familiae condicione variatum esset,” i. e. differently reported, Suet. Vit. 1.—
II. Neutr., to be diversified, variegated; to change, alter, waver, vary, etc.
B. Trop., to be various or different; to change, vary; absol.: “variante fortunā,Liv. 23, 5, 8: “inpatiens variantis caeli,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28: “sic abeunt redeuntque mei variantque timores,Ov. Tr. 2, 153: “dissidet et variat sententia,id. M. 15, 648: “ita fama variat, ut, etc.,Liv. 27, 27, 14. —With abl.: “haec de tanto viro, quamquam et opinionibus et monumentis litterarum variarent, proponenda erant,Liv. 38, 57, 8: “si (lex) nec causis nec personis variet,id. 3, 45, 2.—Impers.: “ibi si variaret,if there were a difference of opinion, Liv. 1, 43, 11; cf.: “nec variatum comitiis est,id. 7, 22, 10.—With adverb. acc.: “si nunc quoque fortuna aliquid variaverit,Liv. 23, 13, 4.—Of differences in the text of an author (late Lat.): “ipsi codices Graeci variant,Aug. in Psa. 118, 7: “nulla in eo variat codicum auctoritas,” id. C. Faust. 11, 4.—Hence, P. a.: vărĭans , antis, varied, manifold: “(terra) fudit aërias volucres variantibus formis,Lucr. 5, 822: “variantis edere formas,id. 5, 720: “astra,Manil. 2, 466.
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    • Cicero, For Milo, 3.8
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.559
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.465
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.648
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.578
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.164
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.441
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 29
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.9
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.648
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.825
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.484
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.759
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.720
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.722
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.822
    • Suetonius, Vitellius, 1
    • Lucan, Civil War, 4.79
    • Lucan, Civil War, 9.713
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.28
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 32.60
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 8.8.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 13
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 27, 27.12
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 43.11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 3, 45.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 60
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 1
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 31.13
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 28
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 22
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 27, 27.14
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 57.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 57
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 1.11
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.5
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.11
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 13.8
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2, 12.10
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.152
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 14.1.9
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 7.3.2
    • Cicero, Orator, 18.59
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
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