eversus
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;
nom. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...venenis etiam flosculi vindicentur? quae tamen, iudices, quamquam eversus et ab omni spe tuendae paupertatis exclusus, aequiore animo..."VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...fatigatum latus mutavi, non spiritum excepi. absens exstinctus, eversus mortem tuam inveni; nemo aegro vincla laxavit, nemo manus..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ferro postulet esse parem? ille quoque eversus mons est, quem maximum in oris progenies Thiae clara supervehitur..."