mutabilis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mūtābĭlis, e, adj. [muto],

changeable, mutable (class.): omne corpus mutabile est, Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 30: sidera quae vaga et mutabili erratione (al. ratione) labuntur, id. Univ. 10: forma civitatis, id. Rep. 2, 23, 43: varium et mutabile semper Femina, an inconstant thing , Verg. A. 4, 569: animus vulgi, Liv. 2, 7.— Comp. : quid inconstantius, aut mutabilius? Val. Max. 6, 19, 14.— Sup. : mutabilissimae deorum voluntates, Porcius Latro decl. in Catil. 16.—Hence, adv.: mū-tābĭlĭter , changeably (ante-class.): mutabiliter avet, Varr. ap. Non. 139, 26.

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