adverso

ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων → as different as chalk from cheese, different as chalk from cheese, apples and oranges, like apples and oranges, by as much as cardamom is different from figs

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

adverso: (archaic advor-), āre,
I verb. freq. adverto, to turn to a thing: animum advorsavi sedulo, ne, etc., Plaut. Rud. 2, 2, 1.

adversō (advorsō), āvī, āre (adverto), tr., diriger continuellement vers : animum Pl. Rud. 306, être très attentif.