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
- M
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..." - M
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..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ferro postulet esse parem? ille quoque eversus mons est, quem maximum in oris progenies Thiae clara supervehitur..."