vacillatio

From LSJ

Βίος κέκληται δ' ὡς βίᾳ πορίζεται → Vi quia paratur vita, vita dicitur → Weil's auf gewaltsamem Streben beruht, heißt's Lebensgut

Menander, Monostichoi, 66

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

văcillātĭo: ōnis, f. vacillo,
I a rocking to and fro, see-saw, a wavering, reeling motion: indecora in dextrum ac laevum latus, Quint. 11, 3, 128: foeda, Suet. Claud. 21 fin.>

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

văcillātĭō,¹⁶ ōnis, f. (vacillo), balancement : Quint. 11, 3, 128 ; Suet. Claud. 21.

Latin > German (Georges)

vacillātio, ōnis, f. (vacillo), das Wanken, Wackeln, Suet. Claud. 21, 2. Quint. 11, 3, 128. Vgl. Auct. de idiom. gen. 582, 60 K. ›vacillatio, σφάλμα‹.