dubitatio: haesitatio (doubt, etc., with reference to a particular case, about which anybody cannot determine how to act): inconstantia (want of firmness as manifested by unsteadiness of plans, etc.): (*crebra) mutatio consilii (change of purpose, Cic.): crebra sententiarum commutatio (frequent change of opinion, Cic., Dom., 2): inopia consilii (the being at a loss what to do): animus parum firmus, or varius incertusque (as a person’s character). Slowness and indecision, dubitatio et morae (e.g., senati, Sall.): a person of great indecision of character, homo parum firmus proposiio (after Velleius, 2, 63, fin.): all my former indecision, quicquid incerti mihi in ammo fuit (Plaut.): to be in a state of indecision, pendere animi (or animo); aestuare dubitatione; dubius est aliquis, quid faciat; affici inopia consilii: anybody remained for a long time in a state of indecision, diu incertum habuit aliquis, quidnam consilii caperet (Sall.); diu haesitavit aliquis, quid facere deberet.