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                    "description": "(verb) : văcillo (\n* A scanned long, Lucr. 3, 502), āvi, ātum, 1,  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).\n* 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.\n* 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,have fallen into confusion,id. Att. 14, 18, 2: justitia vacillat vel jacet potius,id. Off. 3, 33, 118: stabilitas amicitiae vacillat,id. Fin. 1, 20, 66: legio vacillans,wavering in fidelity,id. Phil. 3, 12, 31: γεροντικώτερον 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."
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