obvertite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obverto, obvertere, obverti, obversus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
turn or direct towards; direct against;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ostendens sternentem Troica ferro corpora Peliden, arcus obvertit in illum certaque letifera derexit spicula dextra. quod Priamus gaudere..."Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...admonet absit. Portibus exierant, et moverat aura rudentes: obvertit lateri pendentes navita remos cornuaque in summa locat arbore..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...indoluit Iuno) fuerat de paelice natus. quo simul obvertit saevam cum lumine mentem, 'scilicet hoc etiam restabat, adultera..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...intra moenia compulit; tum totam aciem in Samnites obvertit. Ibi plus certaminis fuit; victoria sicut sera..."