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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Desultory

Those who rode two or more horses in the circus of Rome, and used to leap from one to the other, were called desultores; hence desultor came in Latin to mean one inconstant, or who went from one thing to another; and desultory means after the manner of a desultor.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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