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|lshtext=<b>per-verto</b>: (pervorto), ti, [[sum]], 3, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[turn]] [[around]] or [[about]], to [[overturn]], [[overthrow]], [[throw]] [[down]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[pinus]] proceras pervortunt, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 196 Vahl.): (coqui) aulas pervortunt, Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 16: turrim ballistā, id. Bacch. 4, 4, 59: tum visam beluam immanem, quàcunque incederet, arbusta, virgulta, tecta pervertere, Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49: perversae [[rupes]], [[broken]], [[craggy]] rocks, Liv. 21, 33.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp., in [[wrestling]] or [[boxing]], to [[throw]] [[down]], [[knock]] [[down]]; [[hence]]: si rex opstabit ob viam, regem ipsum [[prius]] pervortito, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 14.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[overthrow]], [[subvert]]; to [[destroy]], [[ruin]], [[undo]], [[corrupt]]: [[cito]] [[homo]] pervorti potest, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 52: labefactare [[atque]] pervertere amicitiam aut justitiam, Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70: [[quidam]], propositis malorum et bonorum finibus, omne [[officium]] perverterunt, id. Off. 1, 2, 5: omnia jura divina [[atque]] humana, id. ib. 1, 8, 26: [[ipse]] (Quinctius) [[postquam]] Junium pervertit, totam causam reliquit, id. Quint. 39, 108: hostium vim se perversurum putavit, pervertit [[autem]] suam, id. Div. 2, 56, 115; id. Brut. 79, 273: aliquem amicitiā alicujus, Tac. A. 13, 45: aliquem, id. H. 3, 38: aliquos et [[ambitio]] pervertet, Quint. 12, 8, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[put]] [[down]], [[confute]], [[silence]] one (in [[allusion]] to the [[meaning]] I. B. [[supra]]): [[nemo]] [[umquam]] me tenuissimā suspicione perstrinxit, quem non perverterim ac perfregerim, Cic. Sull. 16, 47: [[numquam]] [[ille]] me opprimet consilio, [[numquam]] ullo artificio pervertet, id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44.—Hence, perver-sus (pervorsus), a, um, P. a., turned the [[wrong]] [[way]], [[askew]], [[awry]] (cf. [[praeposterus]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: [[rectus]] perversusque [[partus]], Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4: perversas induit comas, gets her false [[hair]] on [[awry]], Ov. A. A. 3, 246: pondere [[capitum]] perversa ova, Plin. 10, 16, 18, § 38: perversa [[vestis]], i. e. pulla, Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 5: [[Roscius]] erat perversissimis oculis, quales sunt strabonum, [[dreadfully]] squint-eyed, Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 79.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., [[perverse]], not [[right]], [[wrong]], [[evil]], [[bad]]: [[dies]] pervorsus [[atque]] advorsus, Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 1: [[nihil]] pravum et perversum, Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 30: [[quid]] [[magis]] inquinatum, deformatum, perversum, conturbatum dici potest, id. Har. Resp. 12, 25: [[homo]] [[praeposterus]] [[atque]] [[perversus]], id. Clu. 26, 71: [[sapientia]], id. Mur. 36, 75: mos, id. Rosc. Com. 18, 56: [[bellum]] Contra fata deūm perverso numine poscunt, Verg. A. 7, 584: perversa grammaticorum [[subtilitas]], Plin. 35, 3, 4, § 13: [[ambitio]], Quint. 10, 7, 21: [[generatio]] perversa, [[wicked]], Vulg. Deut. 32, 20 et saep. —As subst.: perversum, i, n., a [[wrong]], [[evil]]: in perversum [[sollers]], Sen. Vit. Beat. 5, 3.—Hence, adv.: perversē (pervor-sē), [[awry]], the [[wrong]] [[way]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lit.: [[sella]] [[curulis]] in senatu [[perverse]] collocata, Suet. Galb. 18.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trop., [[perversely]], [[wrongly]], [[badly]], [[ill]]: dicere, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. v. 229 Vahl.); so, dicere, Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150: erras [[pervorse]], [[pater]], Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 36: interpretari, id. Truc. 1, 2, 41: si [[quid]] fleri [[pervorse]] videt, id. Pers. 3, 1, 40: vides, id. Merc. 2, 2, 20: si [[quid]] [[perverse]] tetreque [[factum]] est, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 10, 23, 4: uti deorum beneficio, Cic. N. D. 3, 28, 70: imitari, id. Off. 3, 32, 113: quiescite agere [[perverse]], Vulg. Isa. 1, 16.—Comp.: perversius, Tert. Apol. 2.—Sup.: perversissime suspicari, Hier. in Matt. 1, 25.

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