Vacillo, vacillas, vacillâre. Ci. To moue vncoustantly: not to stand sure: to wag or wauer: to be lewse: to be vnconstant.Curio in vtranque partem toto corpore vacillans. Ci. Ex vino vacillare.Quintil.To haue drimke so much that he reeleth or staggereth.Tellus vacillat sub pedibus Lucret.The earth shaketh.Arbor vacillans. Lucret. Wagging.Epistola scripta vacillannbus literulis. Cice. An epistle writ. ten with vnpersire letters, as they do that are meake and feeble.Fides testium non vacillat. Arcadius. Legio vacillans. Ci. A legion not constant and sure.Memoria vacillare. Ci. Not to remember surely.Testis vacillans. Modestinus. An vnconstant witnesse.Vacillat iustitia, vel iacet potius. Ci. Res vacillat & claudicat. Ci. Vacillare videtur stabihtas amicitiæ. Cice. Friendship seemeth not to be constant.Vacillant claui. Ci. The nayles are loose.Vacillare alternis tibijs.To weaue with our legges, setting now the one before, now the other.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
văcillo (a scanned long, Lucr. 3, 502), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. [cf. Sanscr. vak-, to roll; vank-, to shake], to sway to and fro; to waddle, stagger, reel, totter, waver, vacillate (class.; a favorite word with Cic.; cf.: nuto, titubo). I.Lit., of drunken persons: quosdam ex vino vacillantes, quosdam hesternā potatione oscitantes, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66: videre quosdam ex vino vacillantis, Quint. 11, 3, 165: praepediuntur crure vacillanti, Lucr. 3, 479; cf. Ruhnk. ad Rutil. Lup. 2, 7, p. 164 Frotsch.: in utramque partem toto corpore vacillans, Cic. Brut. 60, 216: arbor ventis pulsa vacillans aestuat, Lucr. 5, 1096; so, ambusta, id. 1, 806: vacillant omnia tecta, id. 6, 575: sub pedibus tellus cum tota vacillat, id. 5, 1236: accepi tuam epistulam vacillantibus litterulis, Cic. Fam. 16, 15, 2.—II.Trop., to waver, hesitate, stagger, be untrustworthy, to vacillate: tota res vacillat et claudicat, Cic. N. D. 1, 38, 107: Erotem ad ista expedienda factum mihi videbar reliquisse, cujus non sine magnā culpā vacillarunt,
, id. Phil. 3, 12, 31: gerontikw/teron est memoriola vacillare, id. Att. 12, 1, 2: partim sumptibus in vetere aere alieno vacillant,
are staggering beneath a load of old debts
, id. Cat. 2, 10, 21: aegrotat fama vacillans, Lucr. 4, 1124: gentes vacillantes, Vell. 2, 130, 3: cum animus paulum vacillavit, Sen. Ep. 114, 22: testes, qui adversus fidem testationis suae vacillant, audiendi non sunt, Dig. 22, 5, 2: cujus (testis) ita anceps fides vacillat, ib. 48, 10, 27.