INCONSISTENT Copy link • INCONSISTENTNot agreeing together, insociabilis (not easily uniting together; Plin.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) (res) diversae et insociabiles: alienus (foreign to, inconsistent with, ab aliqua re, aliqua re, alicui rei, alicujus rei): ☞ incongruus, late. To be inconsistent, pugnare inter se (of contradictory assertions, etc.); repugnare alicui rei; alienum esse ab aliqua re (e.g. a alicujus dignitate). To bear uthg without doing anything inconsistent with the character of a wise man, aliquid ita ferre, ut nihil discedas a dignitate sapientis [Vid: “to be INCOMPATIBLE with”]. ☞ “To be inconsistent with,” etc., may often be translated by genitive with esse; e.g., measures inconsistent with the mildness of our times, quae non sunt hujus mansuetudinis. With reference to character, inconstans: non constans (not agreeing with itself; of things and persons): parum sibi conveniens, sibi repugnans (being at variance with itself): inaequalis († Hor., irregular in his actions). (The words are found in this connection and order.) stultus et inaequalis (Sen., Vit. Beat., 12): impar sibi (Hor., Sat., 1, 3, 9). Inconsistent behavior, inconstantia. To be inconsistent; Vid: “to act INCONSISTENTLY. “