vicissitude Copy link Outline 1. vĭcis (gen.2. vĭcissĭtūdo (like preced.)3. văriĕtas (rare in this sense)4. incertum • vicissitude: 1. vĭcis (gen.: nom. sing. not found), vĭcem, vĭce: pl. vĭces (nom. and acc.), vĭcĭbus, f.: such v.s has the state of mortals, habet has v. conditio mortalium, Plin. Pan. 5, fin.: v. also mutability. 2. vĭcissĭtūdo (like preced.): v.s of fortune, fortunae vicissitudines, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 4: cf. omnium rerum est v., Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 45. 3. văriĕtas (rare in this sense): a war involved by sea and land in many a v.. bellum in multa v. terra marique versatum, Cic. Arch. 9, 21: v.s of the times, varietates temporum, id. Fam. 5, 12, 4: cf. Tac. A. 2, 37, med.: quum videamus tot varietates tam volubili orbe circumagi, Plin. Ep. 4, 24, fin.: v. also fickleness, change (subs.). 4. incertum: the v.s of war, incerta belli, Liv. 30, 2, med.: cf. incerta fortunae, Plin. Ep. 3, 19, ad med. Phr.: the v.s (lit. revolutions) of the lot of man, sortis humanae volumina, Plin. 7, 45, 46, § 147: I am myself an example of the v.s of fortune, equidem quam versabilis fortuna sit, documentum ipse sum, Curt. 5, 8, ad fin.: the v.s of human affairs, res humanae fluxae et mobiles, Sall. J. 104: the v.s of fortune, eventus varii fortunae, Caes. B. G. 2, 22: cf. vaga volubilisque fortuna, Cic. Mil. 26, 69: the v.s of life, varia vitae commutabilisque ratio, ib.