waver Copy link Outline 1. fluctuo, 12. fluĭto, 13. dŭbĭto, 1 (between two courses)4. văcillo, 1 (to be unsteady)5. nūto, 1 (to incline to fall, to want firmness)6. lăbo, 1 (to totter) • waver: 1. fluctuo, 1: to w. in a decision, in decreto fluctuare, Cic. Acad. 2, 9, 29. 2. fluĭto, 1: that I may not w. in suspense, ne fluitem pendulus, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 110: the allegiance of Caecina is believed to have w.'d, creditur Caecinae fides fluitasse, Tac. H. 2, 93. 3. dŭbĭto, 1 (between two courses): that he never either w.'d or feared, se neque unquam dubitasse neque timuisse, Caes. B. G. 1, 41. 4. văcillo, 1 (to be unsteady): a w.ing legion, legio vacillans, Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31. 5. nūto, 1 (to incline to fall, to want firmness): the cavalry attacks the w.ing line, nutantem aciem equitatus incursat, Tac. H. 3, 18: Democritus seems to w. about the nature of the gods, Democritus nutare videtur in natura deorum, Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 120. 6. lăbo, 1 (to totter): know that my mind, which seemed fixed before, w.s, scito meum consilium labare, quod satis jam fixum videbatur, Cic. Att. 8, 14, 2: the allies begin to w., socii coeperunt l., Liv. 22, 61, ad fin. Phr.: to begin to w., lăbascere, Pl.: Ter.: to cause to w., lăbĕfăcere, Cic.: Tac.: in swift thought he w.s now this way now that, animum celerem nunc huc nunc dividit illuc, Virg. Aen. 4, 285.