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An armed man with a sword in his hand, inscribed, "CONSTANTIA SUM, NIL TIMENS." This virtue is one of the forms of fortitude, and Giotto therefore sets as the vice opponent to Fortitude, "Inconstantia," represented as a woman in loose drapery, falling from a rolling globe.
Again, what is that other characteristic of a life of the senses, that alternate movement of appetite and disgust, of disgust and appetite, the soul floating ever uncertain between ardour which abates and ardour which is renewed? Inconstantia concupiscentia. That is what a life of the senses is.
INCONSTANTIA: 'instability', 'inconsistency'. Constantia, unwavering firmness and consistency, is the characteristic of the wise man; cf. Acad. 2, 23 sapientia ... quae ex sese habeat constantiam; also Lael. 8 and 64. AIUNT: sc. stulti. PUTASSENT: the subjunctive is due to the indirect discourse. Where we say 'I should not have thought, the Latins say, in direct narration, 'non putaram, i.e.
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