I.dep antevortar, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1), to place one's self before, to go or come before, to precede.
I. Lit.: “maerores antevortunt gaudiis,” Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 60: “stella tum antevertens, tum subsequens,” Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 53: “itaque antevertit,” id. Mil. 17.—
II. Trop.
A. To anticipate: miror, ubi ego huic antevorterim, * Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 12: “mihi Fannius antevertit,” Cic. Am. 4, 16: “damnationem veneno,” Tac. A. 13, 30.—
B. To prefer, to place before: “rebus aliis antevortar, ut, etc.,” Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1: “Caesar omnibus consiliis antevertendum existimavit, ut, etc.,” Caes. B. G. 7, 7 (where omnibus consiliis are not, as Herz. ad h. l. supposes, the abl., but analog. to rebus aliis in the preced. example, in the dat., e. g.: prae omnibus aliis consiliis id efficiendum existimavit ut, etc., Fr.).
