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  • 1 vacillo

    văcillo ( a scanned long, Lucr. 3, 502), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [cf. Sanscr. vak-, to roll; vank-, to shake], to sway to and fro; to waddle, stagger, reel, totter, waver, vacillate (class.; a favorite word with Cic.; cf.: nuto, titubo).
    I.
    Lit., of drunken persons: quosdam ex vino vacillantes, quosdam hesternā potatione oscitantes, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66:

    videre quosdam ex vino vacillantis,

    Quint. 11, 3, 165:

    praepediuntur crure vacillanti,

    Lucr. 3, 479; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. 2, 7, p. 164 Frotsch.:

    in utramque partem toto corpore vacillans,

    Cic. Brut. 60, 216:

    arbor ventis pulsa vacillans aestuat,

    Lucr. 5, 1096; so,

    ambusta,

    id. 1, 806:

    vacillant omnia tecta,

    id. 6, 575:

    sub pedibus tellus cum tota vacillat,

    id. 5, 1236:

    accepi tuam epistulam vacillantibus litterulis,

    Cic. Fam. 16, 15, 2.—
    II.
    Trop., to waver, hesitate, stagger, be untrustworthy, to vacillate:

    tota res vacillat et claudicat,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 38, 107:

    Erotem ad ista expedienda factum mihi videbar reliquisse, cujus non sine magnā culpā vacillarunt,

    have fallen into confusion, id. Att. 14, 18, 2:

    justitia vacillat vel jacet potius,

    id. Off. 3, 33, 118:

    stabilitas amicitiae vacillat,

    id. Fin. 1, 20, 66:

    legio vacillans,

    wavering in fidelity, id. Phil. 3, 12, 31: gerontikôteron est memoriola vacillare, id. Att. 12, 1, 2:

    partim sumptibus in vetere aere alieno vacillant,

    are staggering beneath a load of old debts, id. Cat. 2, 10, 21:

    aegrotat fama vacillans,

    Lucr. 4, 1124:

    gentes vacillantes,

    Vell. 2, 130, 3:

    cum animus paulum vacillavit,

    Sen. Ep. 114, 22:

    testes, qui adversus fidem testationis suae vacillant, audiendi non sunt,

    Dig. 22, 5, 2:

    cujus (testis) ita anceps fides vacillat,

    ib. 48, 10, 27.

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  • 2 aestuō

        aestuō āvī, ātus, āre    [aestus], of fire, to rage, burn: Aestuat ignis, V. — To be warm, be hot, burn, glow: ager aestuat herbis, V.: erudire iuventutem algendo, aestuando: sub pondere, O.— Of the sea, to rise in waves, surge: Maura semper unda, H.: gurges, seethes, V.; cf. nebulā specus, i. e. smokes, V.—To undulate, swell, be tossed, heave: in ossibus umor, V.—Fig., of passion, to burn, be excited, be inflamed: aestuare illi, qui dederant pecuniam: quae cum aestuans agitaret, S.: in corde pudor, V.: rex in illā Aestuat, for her, O.— To waver, vacillate, hesitate, be in doubt: dubitatione: Aestuat et vitae disconvenit, H.
    * * *
    aestuare, aestuavi, aestuatus V INTRANS
    boil, seethe, foam; billow roll in waves; be agitated/hot; burn; waver

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  • 3 errō

        errō āvī, ātus, āre,    to wander, stray, rove, roam: cum vagus et exsul erraret: non certis passibus, O.: circum villulas nostras: per urbem, L.— Pass impers.: solis erratur in agris, V.—Of things: quae (stellae) errantes nominarentur, planets: Stellae sponte suā iussaene errent, H.: ubi flexibus errat Mincius, V.: pulmonibus errat Ignis edax, spreads, O.: extremus si quis super halitus errat, flutters, V.: errantibus oculis, wavering, V.: relegens errata retrorsus Litora, V.: erratas dicere terras, O.—To miss the way, lose oneself, go astray: qui erranti monstrat viam, Enn. ap. C.: errare viā, V.—Fig., to wander, stray at random: ne errare cogatur oratio: errans sententia: dubiis adfectibus errat, O.: ne tuus erret honos, be in doubt, O.—To be in error, err, mistake, go wrong, go astray: de nostris verbis, T.: totā viā, T.: non totā re, sed temporibus: procul, S.: valde: cum Platone: errare, si sperent, etc., Cs.: te errantem persequi, S.: errans in ahenos fetūs natura, producing monsters, L.: Teneo quid erret, T.: errabant tempora, in chronology, O.— Pass impers.: si fuit errandum, O.: si erratur in nomine: et in cognomine erratum sit, L.
    * * *
    I
    errare, erravi, erratus V
    wander, go astray; make a mistake, err; vacillate
    II
    truant; vagabond, wanderer

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  • 4 errō

        errō ōnis, m    [1 erro], a wanderer, vagabond: fugitivus erro, H.— A wanderer in love, Tb.
    * * *
    I
    errare, erravi, erratus V
    wander, go astray; make a mistake, err; vacillate
    II
    truant; vagabond, wanderer

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  • 5 fluctuō

        fluctuō āvī, ātus, āre    [fluctus], to move in waves, wave, undulate, fluctuate: quadriremis in salo fluctuans: commune mare fluctuantibus, wavetossed: fluctuat Aëre tellus, swims in light, V.— Fig., to be restless, be unquiet, rage, swell: magno irarum aestu, V.: ira intus, V.— To waver, hesitate, vacillate, fluctuate: acies fluctuans, L.: animo nunc huc, nunc illuc, V.: fluctuante rege inter spem metumque, L.: fluctuans sententia.
    * * *
    fluctuare, fluctuavi, fluctuatus V
    rise in waves, surge, swell, undulate, fluctuate; float; be agitated/restless

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  • 6 vacillō

        vacillō āvī, ātus, āre,    to sway to and fro, stagger, reel, totter: ex vino: in utramque partem toto corpore: epistula vacillantibus litterulis.—Fig., to waver, hesitate, be untrustworthy, vacillate: tota res vacillat et claudicat: cum unā legione et eā vacillante, i. e. untrustworthy: in vetere aere alieno vacillant, stagger under a load of old debts.
    * * *
    vacillare, vacillavi, vacillatus V
    stagger, totter; be in a weak condition

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  • 7 aporio

    aporiare, aporiavi, aporiatus V INTRANS
    be uncertain/in doubt, vacillate, waver, doubt, be perplexed/distressed/in need

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  • 8 aporior

    aporiari, aporiatus sum V DEP
    be uncertain/in doubt, vacillate, waver, doubt, be perplexed/distressed/in need

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  • 9 aestuo

    aestŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [aestus], to be in agilation or in violent commotion, to move to and fro, to rage, to toss, to boil up.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    Of fire, to rage, burn:

    aestuat ut clausis rapidus fornacibus ignis,

    as the fire heaves and roars in the closed furnaces, Verg. G. 4, 263:

    tectus magis aestuat ignis,

    Ov. M. 4, 64.—Hence,
    2.
    Of the effect of fire, to be warm or hot, to burn, glow; both objectively, I am warm (Fr. je suis chaud), and subjectively, it is warm to me, I feel warm (Fr. j'ai chaud).
    a.
    Object.: nunc dum occasio est, dum scribilitae aestuant ( while the cakes are warm) occurrite, Plaut. Poen. prol. 43; Verg. G. 1, 107:

    torridus aestuat aër,

    glows, Prop. 3, 24, 3; Luc. 1, 16. —
    b.
    Subject., to feel warmth or heat (weaker than sudare, to sweat, and opp. algere, to be cold, to feel cold;

    v. Doed. Syn. 3, 89): Lycurgi leges erudiunt juventutem esuriendo, sitiendo, algendo, aestuando,

    Cic. Tusc. 2, 14, 34:

    ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est,

    id. Ac. 2, 22:

    sub pondere,

    Ov. M. 12, 514; Juv. 3, 103.—
    B.
    Of the undulating, heaving motion of the sea, to rise in waves or billows (cf. aestus):

    Maura unda,

    Hor. C. 2, 6, 4:

    gurges,

    Verg. A. 6, 296.—
    C.
    Of other things, to have an undulating, waving motion, to be tossed, to heave:

    in ossibus umor,

    Verg. G. 4, 308:

    ventis pulsa aestuat arbor,

    Lucr. 5, 1097; Gell. 17, 11, 5. —Of an agitated crowd, Prud. 11, 228.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Of the passions, love, desire, envy, jealousy, etc., to burn with desire, to be in violent, passionate excitement, to be agitated or excited, to be inflamed:

    quod ubi auditum est, aestuare (hist. inf.) illi, qui dederant pecuniam,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 23:

    quae cum dies noctesque aestuans agitaret,

    Sall. J. 93:

    desiderio alicujus,

    Cic. Fam. 7, 18:

    invidiā,

    Sall. C. 23:

    ingens in corde pudor,

    Verg. A. 12, 666:

    at rex Odrysius in illa Aestuat,

    Ov. M. 6, 490 (cf. uri in id. ib. 7, 22;

    and ardere in id,

    ib. 9, 724); Mart. 9, 23:

    aestuat (Alexander) infelix angusto limite mundi (the figure is derived from the swelling and raging of the sea when confined),

    Juv. 10, 169; so Luc. 6, 63.—
    B.
    Esp. in prose, to waver, to vacillate, to hesitate, to be uncertain or in doubt, to be undecided:

    dubitatione,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30: quod petiit, spernit; repetit quod nuper omisit;

    Aestuat et vitae disconvenit ordine toto,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 99:

    sic anceps inter utramque animus aestuat,

    Quint. 10, 7, 33; Suet. Claud. 4:

    aestuante rege,

    Just. 1, 10.

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  • 10 aporior

    ăpŏrĭor, āri, v. dep., = aporeô, to be in uncertainty, to doubt, vacillate (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Isa. 59, 16; ib. Eccli. 18, 6; ib. 2 Cor. 4, 8.

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  • 11 decem

    dĕcem (DEKEM, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 1, 844 al.—The best MSS. and editt. vacillate often between the word and its sign X), num. [Sanscr. and Zend, daçan, Gr. deka, Old H. Germ. zëhan, Germ. zehn, Eng. ten], ten.
    I.
    Prop.:

    decem minae,

    Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 57 and 58:

    hominum milia decem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 4; 7, 21:

    fundi decem et tres,

    Cic. Rose. Am. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 35, 99:

    milia passuum decem novem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 8; Tac. H. 2, 58.—
    B.
    Decem primi (separated thus in the inscrr.), or in one word, Dĕcemprīmi, ōrum, m., the heads or presidents of the ten decuriae which usually formed the senate in an Italian city or Roman colony (afterwards called decaproti, v. h. v.):

    magistratus et decem primi,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 67; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; Inscr. Orell. 642 and 1848. Their dignity was termed dĕcem-prīmātus, ūs, m. (also decaprotia, v. h. v.), Dig. 50, 4, 1.—
    II.
    Meton., for an indefinite, round number:

    si decem habeas linguas, mutum esse addecet,

    Plaut. Bac. 1, 2, 20; id. Merc. 2, 3, 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 25:

    habebat saepe ducentos, Saepe decem servos, etc.,

    id. S. 1, 3, 12: cf.: decies.

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  • 12 Decem primi

    dĕcem (DEKEM, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 1, 844 al.—The best MSS. and editt. vacillate often between the word and its sign X), num. [Sanscr. and Zend, daçan, Gr. deka, Old H. Germ. zëhan, Germ. zehn, Eng. ten], ten.
    I.
    Prop.:

    decem minae,

    Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 57 and 58:

    hominum milia decem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 4; 7, 21:

    fundi decem et tres,

    Cic. Rose. Am. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 35, 99:

    milia passuum decem novem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 8; Tac. H. 2, 58.—
    B.
    Decem primi (separated thus in the inscrr.), or in one word, Dĕcemprīmi, ōrum, m., the heads or presidents of the ten decuriae which usually formed the senate in an Italian city or Roman colony (afterwards called decaproti, v. h. v.):

    magistratus et decem primi,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 67; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; Inscr. Orell. 642 and 1848. Their dignity was termed dĕcem-prīmātus, ūs, m. (also decaprotia, v. h. v.), Dig. 50, 4, 1.—
    II.
    Meton., for an indefinite, round number:

    si decem habeas linguas, mutum esse addecet,

    Plaut. Bac. 1, 2, 20; id. Merc. 2, 3, 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 25:

    habebat saepe ducentos, Saepe decem servos, etc.,

    id. S. 1, 3, 12: cf.: decies.

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  • 13 Decemprimi

    dĕcem (DEKEM, Corp. Inscr. Lat. 1, 844 al.—The best MSS. and editt. vacillate often between the word and its sign X), num. [Sanscr. and Zend, daçan, Gr. deka, Old H. Germ. zëhan, Germ. zehn, Eng. ten], ten.
    I.
    Prop.:

    decem minae,

    Ter. Ph. 4, 3, 57 and 58:

    hominum milia decem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 4; 7, 21:

    fundi decem et tres,

    Cic. Rose. Am. 7, 20; cf. id. ib. 35, 99:

    milia passuum decem novem,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 8; Tac. H. 2, 58.—
    B.
    Decem primi (separated thus in the inscrr.), or in one word, Dĕcemprīmi, ōrum, m., the heads or presidents of the ten decuriae which usually formed the senate in an Italian city or Roman colony (afterwards called decaproti, v. h. v.):

    magistratus et decem primi,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 67; id. Rosc. Am. 9, 25; Inscr. Orell. 642 and 1848. Their dignity was termed dĕcem-prīmātus, ūs, m. (also decaprotia, v. h. v.), Dig. 50, 4, 1.—
    II.
    Meton., for an indefinite, round number:

    si decem habeas linguas, mutum esse addecet,

    Plaut. Bac. 1, 2, 20; id. Merc. 2, 3, 11; Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 25:

    habebat saepe ducentos, Saepe decem servos, etc.,

    id. S. 1, 3, 12: cf.: decies.

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  • 14 erro

    1.
    erro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [root er-, to go; desiderative forms, erchomai (ersk-); and Lat. (ers-o) erro, to seek to reach; hence, to wander; cf. Germ. irren; Engl. err, etc., v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 546 sq.].
    I.
    Neutr.
    A.
    In gen.
    1.
    Prop., to wander, to wander or stray about, to wander up and down, to rove (freq. and class.; cf.

    vagor, palor): propter te errans patria careo,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; cf.:

    cum vagus et exsul erraret,

    Cic. Clu. 62, 175:

    ignari hominumque locorumque Erramus vento huc et vastis fluctibus acti,

    Verg. A. 1, 333; cf. id. ib. 1, 32; 3, 200; Ov. M. 3, 175; id. F. 2, 335 et saep.:

    circum villulas nostras,

    Cic. Att. 8, 9, 3:

    pios per lucos,

    Hor. C. 3, 4, 7:

    inter audaces lupus errat agnos,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 13; cf.

    of beasts,

    id. S. 1, 8, 35; id. Epod. 2, 12; Verg. E. 1, 9; 2, 21; 6, 40; id. G. 4, 11 et saep.— Pass. impers.:

    male tum Libyae solis erratur in agris,

    Verg. G. 3, 249.—Prov.:

    in media luce errare,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 3.—
    b.
    Transf., of inanimate things:

    (stellae) quae errantes et quasi vagae nominantur,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 14;

    so of the planets,

    id. N. D. 2, 20; 3, 20; id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; Plin. 2, 6, 4, § 12; Vulg. Jud. 13; cf.

    of the motion of the stars in gen.,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 17:

    Cocytus errans flumine languido,

    id. C. 2, 14, 18; cf. Verg. G. 3, 14:

    errantesque per altum Cyaneae,

    Val. Fl. 4, 561:

    hic lintres errare videres,

    Ov. F. 2, 391:

    vidi ad frontem sparsos errare capillos,

    i. e. flying about, Prop. 2, 1, 7; cf. id. 2, 22, 9:

    errantia lumina,

    i. e. moving fitfully about, Prop. 3, 14, 27 (4, 13, 27 M.); cf. Stat. Th. 10, 150:

    pulmonibus errat Ignis edax,

    i. e. spreads, runs about, Ov. M. 9, 201 et saep.—
    2.
    Trop., to wander, stray at random: ne vagari et errare cogatur oratio, Cic. de Or., 48, 209; cf.: erraus et vaga sententia (opp. stabilis certaque), id. N. D. 2, 1, 2:

    eo fit, ut errem et vager latius,

    id. Ac. 2, 20, 66:

    ut ingredi libere, non ut licenter videatur errare,

    id. Or. 23, 77:

    errans opinio (opp. stabilis conscientia),

    id. Fin. 2, 22, 71:

    dubiis affectibus errat,

    Ov. M. 8, 473:

    ne tuus erret honos,

    be in doubt, uncertain, id. F. 1, 468; cf. id. ib. 3, 543.— Poet., with a rel.-clause:

    erro, quam insistas viam,

    I am uncertain, in doubt, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 197; cf.:

    inter recens et vetus sacramentum,

    i. e. to hesitate, vacillate, Tac. H. 4, 58.—
    B.
    In partic., to miss the right way, to lose one's self, go astray (in the literal sense rarely, but in the trop. freq. and class.).
    1.
    Lit.: homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 1, 16, 51:

    errare viā,

    Verg. A. 2, 739:

    maledictus qui errare facit caecum in itinere,

    Vulg. Deut. 27, 18.—
    2.
    Trop., to wander from the truth, to err, mistake:

    avius errat Saepe animus,

    Lucr. 3, 463; cf. id. 2, 740:

    totā erras viā,

    Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 14; cf.:

    in eo non tu quidem totà re, sed temporibus errasti,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 9 fin.:

    longe,

    Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40; cf.

    procul,

    Sall. J. 85, 38 Kritz. N. cr.:

    errant probe,

    Plaut. Am. 3, 3, 20:

    vehementer,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 32, 103:

    valde,

    id. de Or. 2, 19, 83 et saep.:

    errare malo cum Platone quam cum istis vera sentire,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 17, 39; cf. id. Balb. 28, 64:

    erras, si id credis,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 53; so with si, id. Hec. 4, 4, 60; Caes. B. G. 5, 41, 5; 7, 29, 2 et saep.:

    de nostris verbis errat,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 22:

    in aliqua re,

    Quint. 6, 3, 112; 10, 2, 21; 11, 1, 81 al.:

    in alteram partem,

    id. 10, 1, 26; cf.:

    in alienos fetus,

    Liv. 31, 12, 8.—Less freq. with acc. of a neutr. pronoun:

    mone, quaeso, si quid erro,

    Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 30; so with quid, Ter. And. 3, 2, 18; Quint. 2, 5, 16; 2, 3, 11; 2, 6, 6:

    hoc,

    Ter. Phorm. 5, 3, 21.— Poet. also with the acc. of a noun:

    errabant tempora,

    i. e. in chronology, Ov. F. 3, 155.— Pass. impers.:

    si fuit errandum,

    Ov. H. 7, 109:

    si nihil esset erratum,

    Quint. 6, 5, 7:

    si erratur in nomine,

    Cic. Fin. 4, 20 fin.; cf.:

    tutius circa priores erratur,

    Quint. 2, 5, 26:

    uno verbo esse erratum,

    id. 7, 3, 17. —Sometimes, in a palliative manner, of moral error, to err through mistake:

    pariter te errantem et illum sceleratissimum persequi,

    Sall. J. 102, 5; cf. id. ib. 104, 4. —Hence,
    b.
    errātum, i, n., an error, mistake, fault:

    illud de Flavio et fastis, si secus est, commune erratum est,

    Cic. Att. 6, 1, 18; cf. id. ib. 13, 44 fin.:

    cujus errato nulla venia, recte facto exigua laus proponitur,

    id. Agr. 2, 2, 5; id. Fam. 5, 20, 8:

    nullum ob totius vitae non dicam vitium, sed erratum,

    id. Clu. 48; cf. id. Lig. 1; id. Sull. 23; and in plur., id. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Sall. J. 102, 10; Ov. Pont. 2, 3, 66.—
    II.
    Act. in Aug. poets (only in part. perf.), to wander over or through:

    immensum est erratas dicere terras,

    Ov. F. 4, 573:

    ager,

    id. ib. 3, 655:

    orbis,

    Val. Fl. 4, 447:

    litora,

    Verg. A. 3, 690.
    2.
    erro, ōnis, m. [1. erro], a wanderer, vagabond, vagrant, Tib. 2, 6, 6; Ov. H. 15, 53.—Used esp. of slaves:

    ut errones aliquem cujus dicantur invenient,

    Plin. Ep. 2, 10, 5; Edict. Aedil. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 1; Dig. 21, 1, 17, § 14; 49, 16, 4 fin.; Hor. S. 2, 7, 113.—Of the queen-bee:

    dux,

    Col. 9, 10 fin. —Of the planets, Nigid. ap. Gell. 3, 10, 2; 14, 1, 11.— Of vagabond soldiers:

    nec nostros servire sinant errorribus agros,

    Verg. Dir. 70 Rib.

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  • 15 fluctuo

    fluctŭo, āvi, ātum, or (perh. not anteAug.) fluctŭor, ātus, 1 (pleraque utroque modo efferuntur:

    fluctuatur, fluctuat,

    Quint. 9, 3, 7), v. n. [fluctus], to move in the manner of waves, i. e. to wave, rise in waves, undulate, to move to and fro, be driven hither and thither (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf.: fluo, fluito).
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    Form fluctuo:

    nunc valide fluctuat mare,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 14:

    ita fluctuare video vehementer mare,

    id. ib. 4, 1, 12;

    4, 2, 11: quadriremem in salo fluctuantem reliquerat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 91:

    quid tam commune quam mare fluctuantibus, litus ejectis?

    id. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

    agebatur huc illuc Galba vario turbae fluctuantis impulsu,

    Tac. H. 1, 40; cf. Gell. 10, 6, 2:

    fluctuet aër,

    Lucr. 6, 367: directaeque acies ac late fluctuat omnis Aere renidenti tellus, waves (in the light) with gleaming brass, Verg. G. 2, 281:

    fluctuant insulae,

    Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209:

    seges,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 699.—In mal. part., Arn. 2, 73; Auct. Priap. 19, 4; cf. fluctus, I. —
    (β).
    Form fluctuor:

    deprehensi in mari Syrtico modo in sicco relinquuntur, modo fluctuantur,

    are driven about by the waves, Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    Delos diu fluctuata,

    Plin. 4, 12, 22, § 66:

    quaedam insulae semper fluctuantur,

    id. 2, 94, 95, § 209 Jan.:

    lignum in longitudinem fluctuatur,

    i. e. floats about, id. 16, 38, 73, § 186:

    lapidem e Scyro insula integrum fluctuari tradunt, eundem comminutum mergi,

    id. 36, 16, 26, § 130.—
    II.
    Trop., to be restless, unquiet, uncertain, doubtful; to rage, swell; to waver, hesitate, vacillate, fluctuate.
    (α).
    Form fluctuo: Eu. Potin, ut animo sis tranquillo? Ch. Quid si animus fluctuat? Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 49; cf.:

    animo nunc huc, nunc fluctuat illuc,

    Verg. A. 10, 680:

    mens animi tantis fluctuat ipsa malis,

    Cat. 65, 4:

    magnis curarum fluctuat undis,

    id. 64, 62; cf.:

    magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu,

    Verg. A. 4, 532; Anthol. Lat. 1, 178, 150:

    fluctuat ira intus,

    Verg. A. 12, 527:

    irarum fluctuat aestu,

    id. ib. 4, 564; so, curarum, 8, 19; Lucr. 4, 1077; Cat. 64, 62:

    ingenti Telamon fluctuat ira,

    Val. Fl. 3, 637:

    fluctuante rege inter spem metumque,

    Liv. 42, 59, 8:

    totam aciem suo pavore fluctuantem, etc.,

    Curt. 3, 10, 6:

    in suo decreto,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 29:

    fluctuantem sententiam confirmare,

    id. Att. 1, 20, 2:

    genus orationis, quod appellamus fluctuans et dissolutum, eo quod sine nervis et articulis fluctuat huc et illuc,

    Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16:

    omnia et citata et fluctuantia,

    Sen. Contr. 3, 19.—
    (β).
    Form fluctuor:

    utrius populi mallet victoriam esse, fluctuatus animo fuerat,

    Liv. 23, 33, 3:

    fluctuatus animo est, utrum, etc.,

    id. 32, 13, 4; 36, 10, 4; Curt. 4, 12, 21; Val. Max. 8, 1, 2: vita fluctuatur per adversa et difficilia, Sen. Ep. [p. 762] 111: semper inter spem et metum fluctuari, Aug. ap. Suet. Claud. 4:

    ambrosia (herba) vagi nominis est et circa alias herbas fluctuati,

    Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28.

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  • 16 fluctuor

    fluctŭo, āvi, ātum, or (perh. not anteAug.) fluctŭor, ātus, 1 (pleraque utroque modo efferuntur:

    fluctuatur, fluctuat,

    Quint. 9, 3, 7), v. n. [fluctus], to move in the manner of waves, i. e. to wave, rise in waves, undulate, to move to and fro, be driven hither and thither (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif.; cf.: fluo, fluito).
    I.
    Lit.
    (α).
    Form fluctuo:

    nunc valide fluctuat mare,

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 1, 14:

    ita fluctuare video vehementer mare,

    id. ib. 4, 1, 12;

    4, 2, 11: quadriremem in salo fluctuantem reliquerat,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 35, § 91:

    quid tam commune quam mare fluctuantibus, litus ejectis?

    id. Rosc. Am. 26, 72:

    agebatur huc illuc Galba vario turbae fluctuantis impulsu,

    Tac. H. 1, 40; cf. Gell. 10, 6, 2:

    fluctuet aër,

    Lucr. 6, 367: directaeque acies ac late fluctuat omnis Aere renidenti tellus, waves (in the light) with gleaming brass, Verg. G. 2, 281:

    fluctuant insulae,

    Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209:

    seges,

    Sen. Herc. Fur. 699.—In mal. part., Arn. 2, 73; Auct. Priap. 19, 4; cf. fluctus, I. —
    (β).
    Form fluctuor:

    deprehensi in mari Syrtico modo in sicco relinquuntur, modo fluctuantur,

    are driven about by the waves, Sen. Vit. Beat. 14:

    Delos diu fluctuata,

    Plin. 4, 12, 22, § 66:

    quaedam insulae semper fluctuantur,

    id. 2, 94, 95, § 209 Jan.:

    lignum in longitudinem fluctuatur,

    i. e. floats about, id. 16, 38, 73, § 186:

    lapidem e Scyro insula integrum fluctuari tradunt, eundem comminutum mergi,

    id. 36, 16, 26, § 130.—
    II.
    Trop., to be restless, unquiet, uncertain, doubtful; to rage, swell; to waver, hesitate, vacillate, fluctuate.
    (α).
    Form fluctuo: Eu. Potin, ut animo sis tranquillo? Ch. Quid si animus fluctuat? Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 49; cf.:

    animo nunc huc, nunc fluctuat illuc,

    Verg. A. 10, 680:

    mens animi tantis fluctuat ipsa malis,

    Cat. 65, 4:

    magnis curarum fluctuat undis,

    id. 64, 62; cf.:

    magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu,

    Verg. A. 4, 532; Anthol. Lat. 1, 178, 150:

    fluctuat ira intus,

    Verg. A. 12, 527:

    irarum fluctuat aestu,

    id. ib. 4, 564; so, curarum, 8, 19; Lucr. 4, 1077; Cat. 64, 62:

    ingenti Telamon fluctuat ira,

    Val. Fl. 3, 637:

    fluctuante rege inter spem metumque,

    Liv. 42, 59, 8:

    totam aciem suo pavore fluctuantem, etc.,

    Curt. 3, 10, 6:

    in suo decreto,

    Cic. Ac. 2, 9, 29:

    fluctuantem sententiam confirmare,

    id. Att. 1, 20, 2:

    genus orationis, quod appellamus fluctuans et dissolutum, eo quod sine nervis et articulis fluctuat huc et illuc,

    Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16:

    omnia et citata et fluctuantia,

    Sen. Contr. 3, 19.—
    (β).
    Form fluctuor:

    utrius populi mallet victoriam esse, fluctuatus animo fuerat,

    Liv. 23, 33, 3:

    fluctuatus animo est, utrum, etc.,

    id. 32, 13, 4; 36, 10, 4; Curt. 4, 12, 21; Val. Max. 8, 1, 2: vita fluctuatur per adversa et difficilia, Sen. Ep. [p. 762] 111: semper inter spem et metum fluctuari, Aug. ap. Suet. Claud. 4:

    ambrosia (herba) vagi nominis est et circa alias herbas fluctuati,

    Plin. 27, 4, 11, § 28.

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  • 17 reicio

    rē-ĭcĭo (better than rē-jĭcĭo), rejēci, jectum, 3 (reicis, dissyl., Stat. Th. 4, 574;

    and likewise reice,

    Verg. E. 3, 96;

    and perh. also,

    Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6; scanned elsewhere throughout rēĭcio, etc.), v. a. [jacio], to throw, cast, or fling back (freq. and class.; cf.: remitto, retorqueo).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.
    a.
    Of inanim. objects:

    imago nostros oculos rejecta revisit,

    Lucr. 4, 285; 4, 107; cf. id. 4, 570:

    telum in hostes,

    Caes. B. G. 1, 46: tunicam reicere, i. e. to fling back, fling over the shoulder (whereas abicere is to throw off, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 4), Lucil. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 69 Müll.; cf.:

    togam in umerum,

    Quint. 11, 3, 131; 140:

    togam a sinistro,

    id. 11, 3, 144:

    togam ab umero,

    Liv. 23, 8 fin.:

    amictum ex umeris,

    Verg. A. 5, 421:

    ex umeris' vestem,

    Ov. M. 2, 582:

    de corpore vestem,

    id. ib. 9, 32:

    penulam,

    Cic. Mil. 10, 29; Phaedr. 5, 2, 5 Burm.:

    sagulum,

    Cic. Pis. 23, 55; Suet. Aug. 26:

    amictum,

    Prop. 2, 23 (3, 17), 13:

    vestem,

    Cat. 66, 81 al.:

    ab ore colubras,

    Ov. M. 4, 474:

    capillum circum caput neglegenter,

    Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 50: manibus ad tergum rejectis, thrown back or behind, Asin. Pol. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3:

    manus post terga,

    Plin. 28, 4, 11, § 45: scutum, to throw over one ' s back (in flight), Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 294; Galb. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 30, 3:

    parmas,

    Verg. A. 11, 619:

    ut janua in publicum reiceretur,

    might be thrown back, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 112:

    fatigata membra rejecit,

    i. e. stretched on the ground, Curt. 10, 5, 3:

    voluit... Reicere Alcides a se mea pectora,

    to push back, Ov. M. 9, 51:

    librum e gremio suo,

    to fling away, id. Tr. 1, 1, 66:

    sanguinem ore,

    to cast up, vomit, Plin. 26, 12, 82, § 131; so,

    sanguinem,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 19, 6; 8, 1, 2:

    bilem,

    Plin. 23, 6, 57, § 106:

    vinum,

    Suet. Aug. 77:

    aliquid ab stomacho,

    Scrib. Comp. 191.— Poet.:

    oculos Rutulorum reicit arvis,

    turns away, averts, Verg. A. 10, 473:

    pars (vocum) solidis adlisa locis rejecta sonorem Reddit,

    echoed, Lucr. 4, 570.—
    b.
    Of living objects, to drive back, chase back, force back, repel (so in gen. not found in class. prose authors):

    hominem,

    Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 19:

    aliquem,

    id. Merc. 5, 2, 69:

    in bubilem reicere (boves),

    id. Pers. 2, 5, 18:

    pascentes a flumine capellas,

    Verg. E. 3, 96:

    in postremam aciem,

    to place in the rear, Liv. 8, 8.—
    (β).
    Reicere se, to throw or cast one ' s self back or again; or, in gen., to throw or fling one ' s self anywhere:

    tum illa Rejecit se in eum,

    flung herself into his arms, Ter. And. 1, 1, 109:

    se in gremium tuom,

    Lucr. 1, 34:

    se in grabatum,

    Petr. 92, 3; cf.:

    in cubile rejectus est,

    id. 103, 5; cf.:

    fatigata membra rejecit,

    leaned back, Curt. 10, 5, 3.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Milit. t. t., to force back, beat back, repel, repulse the enemy (cf.:

    repello, reprimo, refuto): eos, qui eruptionem fecerant, in urbem reiciebant,

    Caes. B. C. 2, 2 fin.:

    reliqui in oppidum rejecti sunt,

    id. B. G. 2, 33; 1, 24 fin.:

    Tusci rejecti armis,

    Verg. A. 11, 630:

    ab Antiocheā hostem,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 10, 2; cf.:

    praesidia adversariorum Calydone,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 35 (where, however, as id. ib. 3, 46, the MSS. vacillate between rejecti and dejecti; v. Oud. N. cr.).—
    2.
    Nautical t. t.: reici, to be driven back by a storm (while deferri or deici signifies to be cast away, and eici to be thrown on the shore, stranded; v. Liv. 44, 19, 2 Drak.): naves tempestate rejectas eodem, unde erant profectae, revertisse, Caes. B. G. 5, 5; so,

    naves,

    id. ib. 5, 23:

    a Leucopetrā profectus... rejectus sum austro vehementi ad eandem Leucopetram,

    Cic. Att. 16, 7, 1; cf. id. Phil. 1, 3, 7; id. Caecin. 30, 88:

    sin reflantibus ventis reiciemur,

    id. Tusc. 1, 49, 119; id. Att. 3, 8, 2.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to cast off, remove, repel, reject:

    abs te socordiam omnem reice,

    Plaut. As. 2, 1, 6: abs te religionem, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 65 Müll. (Trag. Rel. v. 430 Rib.):

    quam ut a nobis ratio verissima longe reiciat,

    Lucr. 6, 81:

    (hanc proscriptionem) nisi hoc judicio a vobis reicitis et aspernamini,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 53, 153:

    ab his reicientur plagae balistarum,

    Vitr. 10, 20:

    foedum contactum a casto corpore,

    Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 9; Ter. Phorm. prol. 18:

    ferrum et audaciam,

    Cic. Mur. 37, 79; cf.

    ictus,

    Stat. Th. 6, 770; and:

    minas Hannibalis retrorsum,

    Hor. C. 4, 8, 16:

    (in Verrinis) facilius quod reici quam quod adici possit invenient,

    Quint. 6, 3, 5.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., to reject contemptuously; to refuse, scorn, disdain, despise; esp. of a lover, etc.:

    forsitan nos reiciat,

    Ter. Phorm. 4, 5, 5:

    petentem,

    Ov. M. 9, 512:

    Lydiam,

    Hor. C. 3, 9, 20:

    Socratem omnem istam disputationem rejecisse et tantum de vitā et moribus solitum esse quaerere,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 10, 16:

    refutetur ac reiciatur ille clamor,

    id. Tusc. 2, 23, 55:

    qui Ennii Medeam spernat aut reiciat,

    id. Fin. 1, 2, 4;

    of an appeal to the Senate: quae cum rejecta relatio esset,

    Liv. 2, 31, 9:

    recens dolor consolationes reicit ac refugit,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11:

    ad bona deligenda et reicienda contraria,

    Cic. Leg. 1, 23, 60; cf.

    (vulgares reïce taedas, deligere),

    Ov. M. 14, 677:

    rejectā praedā,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 68:

    condiciones, Auct. B. Alex. 39: rejecit dona nocentium,

    Hor. C. 4, 9, 42.—
    b.
    In jurid. lang.: judices reicere, to set aside, challenge peremptorily, reject the judges appointed by lot:

    cum ex CXXV. judicibus quinque et LXX. reus reiceret,

    Cic. Planc. 17, 41; 15, 36; id. Att. 1, 16, 3; id. Verr. 2, 1, 7, § 18; 2, 3, 11, § 28; 2, 3, 13, § 32; 2, 3, 59, § 146; id. Vatin. 11, 27; Plin. Pan. 36, 4.—
    c.
    In the philosoph. lang. of the Stoics: reicienda and rejecta (as a transl. of the Gr. apoproêgmena), rejectable things, i. e. evils to be rejected, Cic. Fin. 5, 26, 78; 3, 16, 52; id. Ac. 1, 10, 37; cf. rejectaneus.—
    2.
    With a designation of the term. ad quem, to refer to, make over to, remand to:

    ad ipsam te epistulam reicio,

    Cic. Att. 9, 13, 8:

    in hunc gregem vos Sullam reicietis?

    id. Sull. 28, 77 (with transferre).—
    b.
    Publicists' t. t.: reicere aliquid or aliquem ad senatum (consules, populum, pontifices, etc.), to refer a matter, or the one whom it concerns, from one ' s self to some other officer or authorized body (esp. freq. in Liv.; v. the passages in Liv. 2, 22, 5 Drak.):

    totam rem ad Pompeium,

    Caes. B. C. 3, 17:

    senatus a se rem ad populum rejecit,

    Liv. 2, 27, 5; cf.:

    ab tribunis ad senatum res est rejecta,

    id. 40, 29; and:

    rem ad senatum,

    id. 5, 22, 1:

    aliquid ad pontificum collegium,

    id. 41, 16; so, rem ad pontifices, Ver. Flac. ap. Gell. 5, 17, 2:

    rem ad Hannibalem,

    Liv. 21, 31; id. 2, 28:

    tu hoc animo esse debes, ut nihil huc reicias,

    Cic. Fam. 10, 16, 2.—Of personal objects:

    legati ab senatu rejecti ad populum, deos rogaverunt, etc.,

    Liv. 7, 20; so id. 8, 1; 9, 43; 24, 2; 39, 3.— Absol.:

    tribuni appellati ad senatum rejecerunt,

    Liv. 27, 8; 42, 32 fin. —
    c.
    With respect to time, to put off to a later period, to defer, postpone (Ciceronian):

    a Kal. Febr. legationes in Idus Febr. reiciebantur,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 1:

    reliqua in mensem Januarium,

    id. ib. 2, 1, 3:

    repente abs te in mensem Quintilem rejecti sumus,

    id. Att. 1, 4, 1.—
    * d.
    Reicere se aliquo, to fling one ' s self on a thing, i. e. apply one ' s self to it (very rare): crede mihi, Caesarem... maximum beneficium te sibi dedisse judicaturum, si huc te reicis, Balb. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 15, A, § 1.

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