vărĭo | vărĭans, antis (noun N) :
* V.a. and n. varius.
* Act., to diversify, variegate, change (class.).
* Lit.: (principia) omne genus gignunt variantque colores,Lucr. 2, 759: maculis ortum (sol),Verg. G. 1, 441: caeruleis corpora guttis,Ov. M. 4, 578: tempora cani,id. ib. 12, 465: capillos (gemma),id. Am. 1, 2, 41: ubi caeruleum variabunt sidera caelum,id. F. 3, 449: variare virgis et loris,to beat of all colors, black and blue,Plaut. Poen. prol. 26: putrida pectora palmis,Cat. 64, 352: vestes picto auro,Val. Fl. 3, 11: variante se uvā,becoming colored, turning,Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 189; for which mid.: simulatque uva variari coeperit,Col. Arb. 12, 1.—In part. perf.: vestis priscis hominum variata figuris,variegated, embroidered,Cat. 64, 50: pluribus ille (anguis) notis variatam pingitur alvum,Luc. 9, 713: arcus vix ullā variatus luce colorem,id. 4, 79: eluere calculos nigros paulum candore variatos,Plin. 34, 16, 47, § 157.—Poet.: formas variatus in omnes, changed, metamorphosed, Ov. M. 12, 559.
* Neutr., to be diversified, variegated; to change, alter, waver, vary, etc.
* Lit.: prima mihi variat liventibus uva racemis,becomes variegated, colored,Prop. 4 (5), 2, 13.bacae,Col. 12, 52, 9: variant ostrea coloribus,are different,Plin. 32, 6, 21, § 60: universitas (arietum) tergoris maculis,Col. 7, 3, 2: inter se multum variare figurae Non possunt,Lucr. 2, 484; cf. id. 4, 648: variantes edere formas,id. 5, 722; cf.: volucres variantibu' formis,id. 5, 825: non ita Carpathiae variant Aquilonibus undae,fluctuate,Prop. 2, 5, 11.
* Trop., to be various or different; to change, vary; absol.: variante fortunā,Liv. 23, 5, 8: inpatiens variantis caeli,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 28: sic abeunt redeuntque mei variantque timores,Ov. Tr. 2, 153: dissidet et variat sententia,id. M. 15, 648: ita fama variat, ut, etc.,Liv. 27, 27, 14. —With abl.: haec de tanto viro, quamquam et opinionibus et monumentis litterarum variarent, proponenda erant,Liv. 38, 57, 8: si (lex) nec causis nec personis variet,id. 3, 45, 2.—Impers.: ibi si variaret,if there were a difference of opinion,Liv. 1, 43, 11; cf.: nec variatum comitiis est,id. 7, 22, 10.—With adverb. acc.: si nunc quoque fortuna aliquid variaverit,Liv. 23, 13, 4.—Of differences in the text of an author (late Lat.): ipsi codices Graeci variant,Aug. in Psa. 118, 7: nulla in eo variat codicum auctoritas, id. C. Faust. 11, 4.—Hence, P. a.: , , varied, manifold: (terra) fudit aërias volucres variantibus formis,Lucr. 5, 822: variantis edere formas,id. 5, 720: astra,Manil. 2, 466.