deverteritis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deverto, devertere, deverti, deversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
divert, turn away/aside/in/off; detour/digress/branch off; lodge/put up;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...fuit, quos illi demagogous appellant. Visum est paulum devertere experirique, an digna auditio tanto properantium studio foret. Venit..." - P
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...annis ista querela suis; alitis in rarae miserum devertere funus— magna, sed antiqua est causa doloris Itys. Omnes..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...accepisset, vocatum per epistulas vitata Flaminiae viae celebritate devertere Interamnium atque ibi interfici iussit. longum interfectori visum..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...Capitolinum iter, magna sui parte velut intercepti, devertere via cogebantur: quum saevissimi domini atrocissima effigies tanto victimarum cruore..."