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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  4, l. 569ff (4.469-570) [Mercury] (29-19 BC) [tr. Cranch (1872)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A woman is a fickle, changeful thing! [Varium et mutabile semper femina.] Warning Aeneas that Dido is likely to attack Aeneas&#8217; forces now that she knows he is deserting her. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Still inconstant is a womans minde. [tr. Ogilby (1649)] Who knows what hazards thy delay may bring? Woman&#8217;s a various and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A woman is a fickle, changeful thing!</p>
<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><em>[Varium et mutabile semper<br />
femina.]</em></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  4, l. 569ff (4.469-570) [Mercury] (29-19 BC) [tr. Cranch (1872)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n147/mode/2up?q=%22A+woman+is+a+fickle%2C+changeful+thing+I%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Warning Aeneas that Dido is likely to attack Aeneas' forces now that she knows he is deserting her.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D4%3Acard%3D553#:~:text=Varium%20et%20mutabile,femina.">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Still inconstant is a womans minde.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.4?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=still%20inconstant%20is%20a%20womans%20minde.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Who knows what hazards thy delay may bring?<br>
Woman's a various and a changeful thing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_Virgil_(Dryden)/Aeneid/Book_IV#:~:text=Who%20knows%20what%20hazards%20thy%20delay%20may%20bring%3F%0AWoman%27s%20a%20various%20and%20a%20changeful%20thing.">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Woman is a fickle and ever changeable creature.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA103">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Away to sea! a woman's will<br>
Is changeful and uncertain still.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_4#:~:text=Away%20to%20sea!%20a%20woman%27s%20will%0AIs%20changeful%20and%20uncertain%20still.">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Woman is ever a fickle and changing thing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#BOOK_FOURTH:~:text=Woman%20is%20ever%20a%20fickle%20and%20changing%20thing.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>For woman's heart is shifting evermore.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#BOOK_IV:~:text=Up!%20tarry%20not!%20for%20woman%27s%20heart%20is%20shifting%20evermore.">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Away!<br>
Changeful is woman's mood, and varying with the day.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#book4line514:~:text=Changeful%20is%20woman%27s%20mood%2C%20and%20varying%20with%20the%20day.">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 73]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab">A mutable and shifting thing<br>
is woman ever.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D4%3Acard%3D553#:~:text=A%20mutable%20and%20shifting%20thing%0Ais%20woman%20ever.">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n443/mode/2up?q=%22A+fickle+and+changeful%22">Fairclough</a> (1916)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">A shifty, fickle object<br>
Is woman, always.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#BOOK_IV:~:text=A%20shifty%2C%20fickle,Is%20woman%2C%20always.">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Woman was ever <br>
A veering, weathercock creature.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/98/mode/2up?q=weathercock">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">An ever<br>
uncertain and inconsistent thing is woman.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/100/mode/2up?q=inconstant">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), l. 786-87]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Woman's a thing<br>
Forever fitful and forever changing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/116/mode/2up?q=fitful">Fitzgerald</a> (1981)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Women are unstable creatures, always changing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/98/mode/2up?q=%22always+changing%22">West</a> (1990)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Woman is ever fickle and changeable.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidIV.php#anchor_Toc342030:~:text=Woman%20is%20ever%20fickle%20and%20changeable.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A woman is a fickle and worrisome thing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essential_Aeneid/y8pgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22woman%20is%22">Lombardo</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Woman’s a thing<br>
that’s always changing, shifting like the wind.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22woman's%20a%20thing%22">Fagles</a> (2006), l. 710-11]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Females are a fickle thing, always prone to change.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=female%20blended">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>

See also:<br>
<ul>
	<li>"My lord, you know what Virgil sings -- Woman is various and most mutable." <br>
[<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9176/9176-h/9176-h.htm#:~:text=RENARD.%20Ay%2C%20but%2C%20my%20Lord%2C%20you%20know%20what%20Virgil%20sings%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20Woman%20is%20various%20and%20most%20mutable.">Tennyson</a>, <em>Queen Mary,</em> Act 3, sc. 6 (1875)]</li><br>
	<li>"La donna è mobile." <br>
[<a href="https://www.opera-arias.com/verdi/rigoletto/la-donna-e-mobile/#:~:text=DUCA-,La%20donna%20%C3%A8%20mobile,-Qual%20piuma%20al">Verdi</a>, <em>Rigoletto</em> (1851)]</li>
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