eversio
Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ēversĭo: ōnis, f. everto, I. B..
I Lit.
A An overthrowing.
1 In gen.: columnae, Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5.—In plur.: eversiones vehiculorum, Plin. 22, 17, 20, § 43.—
2 Esp., a destructive overthrow, subversion, destruction: templorum, Quint. 5, 10, 97: urbis, Flor. 1, 12, 7; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 69. —In plur.: eversiones urbium, Flor. 2, 16, 1.—
B A turning out, expulsion from one's possession: possidentium, Flor. 3, 13, 9.—
C A turning out, expulsion: matricis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 28.—
II Trop. (acc. to I. A. 2.), subversion, destruction: hinc rerum publicarum eversiones, Cic. de Sen. 12: rei familiaris, Tac. A. 6, 17: omnis vitae, Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 99; id. Fin. 5, 10, 28.
