vertet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →verto, vertere, verti, versus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, turn around; change, alter; overthrow, destroy;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quibus volutatur, incerta, ancipitia, referet pedem, non vertet terga, sed sensim recedet in tutum. Facile est autem..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...etiam destruet et vim rerum in contrarium vertet. Quid enim prodest esse verba et Latina et significantia..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...dilapsus abibit. Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet in omnes, tanto, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla, donec..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...serviet illi! 'Pace data terris animum ad civilia vertet iura suum legesque feret iustissimus auctor exemploque suo mores..."