inconsistency Copy link Outline 1. inconstantia (of character)2. mūtābĭlĭtas3. rĕpugnantia (as existing between acts or statements) • inconsistency: 1. inconstantia (of character): to call change of plan i., mutationem consilii i. dicere, Cic. Att. 16, 7, med. Join: inconstantia mutabilitasque mentis, Cic. Tusc. 4, 35, 76. 2. mūtābĭlĭtas: Cic.: v. supr. 3. rĕpugnantia (as existing between acts or statements): you do not perceive this gross i., tantam rerum r. non vides, Cic. Ph. 2, 8, 19. Phr.: what i. is this, quam haec inter se repugnant! never was such i., nil fuit unquam sic [tam] impar sibi! Hor. S. 1, 3, 18: cf. foll. artt.
INCONSISTENCY Copy link • INCONSISTENCYinconstantia (want of steadiness; want of agreement with itself; of things and persons): repugnantia (contrariety of nature between things, rerum). To be guilty of inconsistency, Vid: “to act INCONSISTENTLY”]. Nothing was ever like his inconsistency, nil fuit unquam sic impar sibi († Hor.): no inconsistency will be detected in my method of proceeding, mea ratio constans reperietur in aliqua re.