eversum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →everro, everrere, everri, eversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sweep/clean out (room/litter); sweep (sea) with dragnet; net (by dragging);; overturn, turn upside down; overthrow, destroy, ruin;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...procubuit qui saxa Ligustica portat axis et eversum fudit super agmina montem, quid superest de corporibus? quis membra..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...humani generis edidit, a quo imperium adustum atque eversum funditus principis mitissimi recreat clementia. C. Caesar amissa sorore..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...rixam tumultus constitit, sed candelabrum etiam supra mensam eversum et vasa omnia crystallina comminuit, et oleo ferventi aliquot..."Epistola ad Caesarem I
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...male faciundo ac dicundo, dignitate alios, alios civitate eversum irent. Nam quid ego de te dicam, cuius contumeliam..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Mutinam, nota publicarum cladium nomina, loquebantur. prope eversum orbem etiam cum de principatu inter bonos certaretur, sed mansisse..."Liber II
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...Afro videretur, nunc vero prope funditus exstinctum et eversum est. Pudet referre quae quam fracta pronuntiatione dicantur, quibus..."