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|lshtext=<b>ē-verto</b>: or -vorto, ti, [[sum]], 3, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[overturn]], [[turn]] upside [[down]] (syn. [[demolior]], [[destruo]], extinguo, [[diruo]], [[deleo]], etc.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen. ([[very]] [[rare]]): aequora ventis, to [[upturn]], [[agitate]], Verg. A. 1, 43; cf. aquas, Ov. H. 7, 42: [[mare]], Sen. Ep. 4: campum, i. e. to [[plough]], Val. Fl. 7, 75: cervices, to [[twist]], Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 131 Ruhnk.—More freq. and [[class]]. (not in Caes.),<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[overturn]] [[any]] [[thing]] from its [[position]], to [[overthrow]], [[upset]], [[throw]] [[down]]: naviculam, Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 174; id. Par. 3, 1, 20; id. Fin. 4, 27 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 34: pinum, Verg. G. 1, 256; Plin. 16, 31, 56 § 130; cf. poët.: Ismara, i. e. the trees of [[Ismarus]], Stat. Th. 6, 107: currum, Curt. 4, 15; cf. equum, Prop. 4 (5), 10, 8.—Transf., of persons: [[eversus]], thrown [[down]], Plin. 21, 19, 77, § 132; 26, 13, 85, § 137.—Designating the [[term]]. ad quem: si [[quis]] Athon Pindumve revulsos Sede sua, totos in [[apertum]] everteret [[aequor]], Ov. M. 11, 555; cf.: tecta in dominum, id. ib. 1, 231.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Transf., to [[overthrow]], [[subvert]], [[destroy]]: urbes ([[with]] diripere), Cic. Off. 1, 24: Carthaginem, id. Rep. 6, 11: Trojam, Ov. M. 13, 169: [[castellum]], Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 34: [[funditus]] arces, Sil. 17, 376.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[turn]] [[out]], [[drive]] [[out]], [[expel]] a [[man]] from his [[possession]]: ut agro evortat Lesbonicum, [[quando]] evortit aedibus, Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 15; so, adolescentem bonis, id. ib. 1, 2, 177: pupillum fortunis patriis, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51: eos fortunis omnibus, id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21; id. Fl. 5: hunc [[funditus]] bonis, id. Rosc. Am. 39 fin.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop. (Acc. to I. B.)<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To [[overturn]], [[overthrow]]: ab imo [[summa]], Lucr. 5, 163: aliquem non judicio [[neque]] disceptatione, sed vi [[atque]] impressione evertere, to [[ruin]], Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 8: aliquem fortunis omnibus, id. Div. in Caec. 6, 21.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> To [[overthrow]] [[completely]], to [[subvert]], [[ruin]], [[destroy]]: [[funditus]] aratores, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18 fin.: [[funditus]] civitates, id. Pis. 35, 86: eversa per te et perdita [[civitas]], id. ib. 24, 57; id. Lael. 7, 23; cf. Quint. 2, 16, 4; Verg. G. 1, 500: [[funditus]] amicitiam, Cic. Fin. 2, 25; cf.: [[penitus]] virtutem, id. ib. 3, 3: totum [[genus]] hoc regiae civitatis, id. Rep. 2, 29: leges, testamenta, id. Verr. 2, 2, 19; cf. id. Cat. 1, 7 fin.: constitutam philosophiam, id. Ac. 2, 5, 15; cf. definitionem, id. 2, 6 fin.: finitionem, Quint. 7, 3, 23: [[opus]], id. 2, 17, 34: majestatem dictatoriam et disciplinam militarem, Liv. 8, 30 fin.: [[patrimonium]], to [[waste]], [[squander]], Dig. 47, 6, 1: pietatem, Lucr. 3, 84: spem, Ov. M. 13, 623: Crassos, Pompeios, to [[ruin]], Juv. 10, 108: titulum, to [[erase]], Capit. Gord. Tert. 34.

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