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|lshtext=<b>trans-verto</b>: ti, [[sum]], 3, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[turn]] or [[direct]] [[across]] or [[athwart]] ([[post]]-[[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: ut quae [[defensio]] fuerat, [[eadem]] in accusationem transverteretur, should be turned, converted, App. Mag. p. 325, 33: eorum consilia hac [[atque]] [[illac]] variā cogitatione, to [[turn]] [[over]], Firm. Math. 6, 15.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., to [[turn]] [[away]], [[avert]]: inimica, Arn. 7, 219: fortes meos, Tert. Praescr. 37. — Hence, [[transversus]] (-vorsus) or trāver-sus, a, um, P. a., turned [[across]]; [[hence]], [[going]] or [[lying]] [[across]], [[athwart]], [[crosswise]]; [[cross]]-, [[transverse]], [[traverse]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: viae, [[cross]]-streets, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 119: tramites, Liv. 2, 39, 3: limites, id. 22, 12, 2: [[fossa]], Caes. B. G. 2, 8: fossas viis praeducit, id. B. C. 1, 27: [[vallum]], id. ib. 3, 63: tigna, id. ib. 2, 9: transversosque volare per imbres fulmina cernis, Lucr. 2, 213; cf.: [[nubila]] portabunt venti transversa per auras, id. 6, 190: Manilium nos vidimus transverso ambulantem [[foro]], [[across]] the [[forum]], Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 133: taleae ne [[plus]] [[quattuor]] digitos transversos emineant, [[four]] fingers [[across]], [[four]] [[finger]]-breadths, [[Cato]] ap. Plin. 17, 18, 29, § 126; cf. prov.: si [[hercle]] tu ex [[isto]] [[loco]] Digitum transversum aut unguem latum excesseris, a fingerbreadth, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 18; so, [[digitus]], Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 58 (v. [[digitus]]); for [[which]], also: discedere a rectā conscientiā traversum unguem, id. Att. 13, 20, 4: (versibus) incomptis allinet atrum Transverso calamo [[signum]], Hor. A. P. 447: ut [[transversus]] [[mons]] sulcetur, Col. 2, 4, 10: plurimum [[refert]], concava sint ([[specula]]), an elata; transversa, an obliqua, Plin. 33, 9, 45, § 129. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Neutr. as subst.: transversum, i, a [[cross]] [[direction]] or [[position]], [[only]] [[with]] prepp. adv., [[crosswise]], [[transversely]], etc.: non [[prorsus]], [[verum]] ex transverso cedit, [[quasi]] [[cancer]] solet, [[obliquely]], [[sideways]], Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 45: e transverso vacefit [[locus]], Lucr. 6, 1018: [[paeninsula]] ad formam gladii in transversum porrecta, Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 83: in transversum positae (arbores), id. 16, 42, 81, § 222: aratione per transversum iteratā, id. 18, 20, 49, § 180; so id. 37, 9, 37, § 118 (al. [[saepe]] traversa): [[collectus]] [[pluvialis]] aquae transversum secans, [[intersecting]] diagonally, Front. Limit. p. 43 Goes.; cf. [[poet]]. in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: (venti) mutati transversa fremunt, at [[right]] angles to [[their]] [[former]] [[direction]], Verg. A. 5, 19; so id. E. 3, 8; Val. Fl. 2, 154; Stat. Th. 1, 348.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.: transversa incurrit misera [[fortuna]] rei publicae, crossed, thwarted, Cic. Brut. 97, 331: cum coepit transversos agere [[felicitas]], i. e. to [[lead]] [[aside]] or [[astray]], Sen. Ep. 8, 3: transversum judicem ferre, Quint. 10, 1, 110; Plin. 9, 17, 31, § 67; 28, 1, 1, § 1. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Neutr. as subst.: transversum, i, n., [[only]] [[with]] prepp. adv.: [[ecce]] [[autem]] de transverso L. [[Caesar]], ut veniam ad se, rogat, i. e. [[contrary]] to [[expectation]], [[unexpectedly]], Cic. Att. 15, 4, 5: [[ecce]] [[tibi]] [[iste]] de transverso, Heus, inquit, etc., Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14; for [[which]]: [[quod]] non exspectes, ex transverso [[fit]], Petr. 55: haec [[calamitas]] ex transverso accidit, Scrib. Comp. 231.—Hence, advv.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; transversē (-vorsē), [[crosswise]], [[transversely]], [[obliquely]]: [[transverse]] describantur horae in columellā, Vitr. 9, 9, 7; Cels. 5, 26, 24; Veg. 2, 5, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[transversim]], [[transversely]], [[crosswise]]: obliquatis manibus, Tert. Bapt. 8.
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