Mobilis, & hoc mobile, pen. cor. Plin. Moueable: that may be mooued: mutable: wauering: dnconstant.Volat ambiguis mobilis alis. Lenec. Aequor mobile.Ouid.Aetas mobilis iuuenum.Virg.Mobili animo esse. Metellus ad Ciccronem. To be of vncõstant and wauering minde.Mobilissimo ardore tenetur mundus.Cic.Aura mobilis Ouid.Cursus mobilis.Senec.Folia mobilia. Hor. Wagging leaues.Mobilis ad omnem auram spei gens atq: infida.Liu.A people dufaithfull and mutable at euery light blaste of hope that is giuen.Mobilis homo cui opponitur Constans, Cicero.A light and vnconstant person.Hora mobilis.Senec.Humor mobilis cœli.Virg.Mobilia ingenia.Liu.Vnconstant heads.Ira mobilis turbati vulgi. Sil. Mobile lignum alienis viribus. Hora. Egregiè mobilis natura animi. Lucr. The mind is naturally very actine and full of motion.Lubrici & mobiles oculi. Ci. Eies alway wagging and mouing.Res mobiles. Hermogenes. Goods moueable.Venti mobiles.Ouid.Wauering windes.Vulgus mobile. Claud.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mōbĭlis, e, adj. [for movibilis, from moveo], easy to be moved, movable; loose, not firm (class.). I.Lit.: sum pernix pedibus manibus mobilis, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 36: mobiles turres, Curt. 8, 11, 32: oculi, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142: supercilia, Plin. 11, 37, 51, 138: penna, Ov. A. A. 2, 62: mobilissimus ardor, Cic. N. D. 2, 11, 30: mobiles res and mobilia bona, in law, movable things, movables, chattels (opp. to lands, houses, fixtures), as cattle, money, clothes, etc., Dig. 6, 1, 1: remedium ad dentium mobiles firmandos,
loose
, Plin. 21, 31, 105, 180.—II.Trop.A.Pliable, pliant, flexible; excitable; nimble, quick, active, agile, rapid, swift, fleet: dum mobilis aetas, Verg. G. 3, 165: populus mobilior ad cupiditatem agri, Liv. 6, 6: volat ambiguis mobilis alis hora, Sen. Hippol. 1141; cf. id. Oedip. 992: mobile et expeditum agmen, Curt. 4, 14, 16: venti,
, Vitr. 5, 7.—B. In a bad sense, changeable, inconstant, fickle: nec in te animo fui mobili, sed ita stabili, ut, etc., Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 10: Galli sunt in consiliis capiendis mobiles. Caes. B. G. 4, 5; cf. under the adv. 2: gens ad omnem auram spei mobilis atque infida, Liv. 29, 3: ingenium, Sall. J. 46, 3; 66, 2: favor, Sen. Vit. Beat. 1, 5: mobiles et fluxae res humanae, Sall. J. 104, 3: mobilis et varia est ferme natura malorum, Juv. 13, 237.—Hence, A.Subst.: mōbĭ-lĭa, ium, n., movable goods, chattels: mobilia quidem et moventia, quae modo in jus adferri adducive possent, Gai. Inst. 4, 16.—B.Adv.: mōbĭlĭter, with rapid motion, rapidly, quickly. 1. Lit. (rare but class.): mobiliter quae feruntur, Lucr. 4, 745 cor mobiliter palpitare, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24.—Comp.: reverti mobilius, Lucr. 5, 635.— 2.Trop.: omnes fere Gallos ad bellum mobiliter celeriterque excitari,