VARY Copy link • VARYTransitively, mutare (to cause one of two things to take place of the other): submutare (of a partial change): variare (so that sometimes one, sometimes the other has place): distinguere (to introduce an agreeable variety). (The words are found in this connection and order.) variare et mutare; variare et distinguere. To vary labor with recreation or rest, graviora opera lusibus jocisque distinguere; variare otium labore, laborem otio. Intransitively, mutari: variari, or variare (to change backward and forward; especially of the weather; also of opinions and reports, ita fama variat, ut, etc. Liv.; variat sententia, Ov.; variatis sententiis, Cic.): converti (to turn round, for better or worse). Not to vary, sibi constare; a se non decedere.