instabilis

FORTVNAM insanam esse et caecam et brutam perhibent philosophi, saxoque instare in globoso praedicant uolubili: id quo saxum impulerit fors, eo cadere Fortunam autumant. insanam autem esse aiunt, quia atrox incerta instabilis siet: caecam ob eam rem esse iterant, quia nil cernat quo sese adplicet: 5 brutam, quia dignum atque indignum nequeat internoscere. sunt autem alii philosophi, qui contra Fortuna negant ullam miseriam esse, temeritatem esse omnia autumant. id magis ueri simile esse usus reapse experiundo edocet: uelut Orestes modo fuit rex, factust mendicus modo.

Fortune 1912

(instabilis tellus, innabilis unda), where they can neither stand nor swim, and where the tracks of their footsteps are obliterated by time; while the march of mathematics is pursued on a broad and magnificent highway, which the latest posterity shall frequent without fear of danger or impediment.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

nam quis te maiora gerit castrisue foroue? nec tamen hic aut hic tibi laus maiorue minorue, 40 iusta pari premitur ueluti cum pondere libra, prona nec hac plus parte sedet nec surgit ab illa, qualis, inaequatum si quando onus urget utrimque, alterno instabilis nutat depressior orbe.

Mighty in Peace as Mighty in Arms 1912

Exemplum instabilis non leve sortis eo; "and Jean Marot found inspiration in a Venetian song --" Ogni fumo viene al basso "-- which he rendered in the following lines, alluding to the legend of the Moro's fresco in the Castello of Milan: --

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887