avertebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →averto, avertere, averti, aversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn away from/aside, divert, rout; disturb; withdraw; steal, misappropriate;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...quoque traduntur, aptissimum. Nam et laqueis falces avertebant, quas, cum destinaverant, tormentis introrsus reducebant, et aggerem cuniculis subtrahebant..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...suos stipendiumque equitum fraudabant et praedam omnem domum avertebant. Quibus illi rebus permoti universi Caesarem adierunt palamque..."