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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• fickleness:
      1. 1. inconstantia: nobody will ever separate fortune and f., fortunam nemo ab in. [et temeritate] sejunget, Cic. N. D. 3, 24, 61: v. inconsistency.
      2. 2. mūtābĭlĭtas: v. changeableness. Join: inconstantia mutabilitasque [mentis], Cic. Tusc. 4, 35, 76: v. changeableness.
      3. 3. mōbĭlĭtas (pliableness and liability to sudden impulse): f. of character, m. ingenii, Sall.: the f. of the mob, m. vulgi, Tac.: the f. of Fortune, m. Fortunae, Nep.
      4. 4. lĕvĭtas (opp. to steadiness and gravity of character): what is more disgraceful than inconstancy, changeableness, f., quid est inconstantia, mutabilitate, levitate turpius? Cic.
      5. 5. infirmĭtas: fearing the f. of the Gauls, i. Gallorum veritus, Caes. B. G. 4, 5.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FICKLENESS
inconstantia: varietas: infidelitas: levitas: mutabilitas mentis: mobilitas: infirmitas. [SYN. in INCONSTANCY.] (The words are found in this connection and order.) varietas atque infidelitas; levitas et infirmitas; inconstantia mutabilitasque mentis: mobilitas (PROP., mobility of anything round its centre, and thus tropically used by Cic., De Divin., 2, 6, 15, and Plin., 37, 1, 2, for “fickleness of fortune,” fortunae): instabilitas (e.g., mentis, Plin., 24, 17, 102).