versi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →versus, versus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
line, verse; furrow, ground traversed before turn; row/string, bench (rowers);
gen. sg. - Entry →verro, verrere, verri, versus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
sweep clean; sweep together; sweep (to the ground); skim, sweep; sweep along;; turn, turn around; change, alter; overthrow, destroy;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...exitiosis effascinationibus; atque inibi de feminis repente versis in mares. I. Cum e Graecia in Italiam rediremus..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...proximam civitatem demandari animadvertissent; tunc demum ad paenitentiam versi reprenso ac retento vehiculo invidiam quae sibi fieret deprecati..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...fata petentes Palladii rapuere metus, sic in sua versi funera concurrunt dominis revocantibus axes. non tam foeda virum..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...maesta phalanx Teucrique sequuntur Tyrrhenique omnes et versis Arcades armis. postquam omnis longe comitum praecesserat ordo, substitit Aeneas..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...advolat Aeneae tenui discrimine leti esse suos, tempus versis succurrere Teucris. proxima quaeque metit gladio latumque per agmen..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...animi Tmarus et Mavortius Haemon agminibus totis aut versi terga dedere aut ipso portae posuere in limine vitam..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...reduces socios classemque relatam nuntio, et in tutum versis aquilonibus actam, ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes. Aspice..."Capitula
Aulus Gellius
"...exitiosis effascinationibus; atque inibi de feminis repente versis in mares. V. Diversae nobilium philosophorum sententiae de genere..."
