volubilitas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →volubilitas, volubilitatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
rapid turning, whirling; circular motion; fickleness (fate); fluency (speech);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...quoniam ita sese modus eius et formae volubilitas habet: sic ordo et ratio et necessitas fati genera ipsa..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...moverent, Tectaphon Oleniden a summo vertice fregit; [fracta volubilitas capitis latissima, perque os perque cavas nares oculosque auresque..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...rebus. Est plerisque Graecorum, ut illi, pro copia volubilitas: tam longas tamque frigidas perihodos uno spiritu quasi torrente..."