consistent Copy link Outline 1. constans, ntis2. consentāneus • consistent: 1. constans, ntis: c. reports, rumores c., Cic.: the record of this year is not very c., c. parum memoria hujus anni, Liv. Join: constans et gravis; firmus et stabilis et constans: Cic. But constans denotes firmness and constancy rather than mere consistency: see constant. In bad sense, c. in one's faults, c. in vitiis, Hor. 2. consentāneus: theories c. with themselves, disciplinae sibi c., Cic.: a man c. both in life and in death, vir vita et morte c., Vell. Phr.: there is no fortitude without a c. character, fortis animus sine constantia et aequabilitate nullus est, Cic.