I.to turn aside, turn or draw in another direction, divert.
I. Lit.: “in extremis partibus triglyphi semicanaliculi intervertantur,” Vitr. 4, 3, 5: “ductum aquae,” Dig. 43, 20, 8.—
II. Trop., to alter, change for the worse, pervert: “recta ingenia,” Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 22, 1: “rationes,” to falsify accounts, Front. Strat. 3, 16, 3.—
B. To purloin, pilfer, embezzle: “argentum,” Plaut. As. 2, 2, 92: “ille induxit, ut peteret: et receptum intervertit, ad seque transtulit,” Cic. Phil. 2, 32, 79: “interverso regali hoc dono,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 30, § 68: “vectigalia,” Suet. Vit. 7.—
2. Esp., to cheat out of, defraud of a thing: aliquem aliqua re, to cheat, defraud (anteand post-class.): “ut me muliere intervorteret,” Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 110: possessione dominum, Gell. 11, 18, 13.— With acc. alone: “quem intervortam?” Plaut. As. 2, 1, 10; Dig. 41, 2, 20. —
