converterat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →converto, convertere, converti, conversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn upside down/side-to-side; invert/transpose/convulse; turn over (soil)/dig;; turn backwards, recoil; retort; drive back, repulse; direct (course/attention);; translate; modify, adapt; change/alter/transform; convert (to cash), pay over;; cause to turn/revolve, rotate; turn/wheel about; reverse; shift/transfer;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...comisque cervicum fluctuantibus animos oculosque omnium in sese converterat. Introductus erat inter compluris ceteros ad pugnam bestiarum datus..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...itinere Asiae Syriaeque ad suam potentiam dominatumque converterat, rem ad arma deduci studebat. His de causis aguntur omnia..."de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...congrediendum progressus. Quoniam ferocitas Antistii omnium mentes converterat ab opere ad spectandum, acies sunt dispositae. Nam inter bellatores..."