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per-verto (pervorto ), ti, sum, 3, v. a.,
I.to turn around or about, to overturn, overthrow, throw down (class.).
I. Lit.: pinus proceras pervortunt, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 196 Vahl.): “(coqui) aulas pervortunt,Plaut. Cas. 4, 1, 16: “turrim ballistā,id. Bacch. 4, 4, 59: “tum visam beluam immanem, quàcunque incederet, arbusta, virgulta, tecta pervertere,Cic. Div. 1, 24, 49: “perversae rupes,broken, craggy rocks, Liv. 21, 33.—
B. Esp., in wrestling or boxing, to throw down, knock down; hence: “si rex opstabit ob viam, regem ipsum prius pervortito,Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 14.—
II. Trop.
B. To put down, confute, silence one (in allusion to the meaning I. B. supra): “nemo umquam me tenuissimā suspicione perstrinxit, quem non perverterim ac perfregerim,Cic. Sull. 16, 47: “numquam ille me opprimet consilio, numquam ullo artificio pervertet,id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44.—Hence, perver-sus (pervorsus ), a, um, P. a., turned the wrong way, askew, awry (cf. praeposterus).
A. Lit.: rectus perversusque partus, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4: “perversas induit comas,gets her false hair on awry, Ov. A. A. 3, 246: “pondere capitum perversa ova,Plin. 10, 16, 18, § 38: perversa vestis, i. e. pulla, Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 5: “Roscius erat perversissimis oculis, quales sunt strabonum,dreadfully squint-eyed, Cic. N. D. 1, 28, 79.—
2. Trop., perversely, wrongly, badly, ill: dicere, Enn. ap. Gell. 11, 4, 3 (Trag. v. 229 Vahl.); so, “dicere,Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 150: “erras pervorse, pater,Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 36: “interpretari,id. Truc. 1, 2, 41: “si quid fleri pervorse videt,id. Pers. 3, 1, 40: “vides,id. Merc. 2, 2, 20: si quid perverse tetreque factum est, Cato ap. Gell. 10, 23, 4: “uti deorum beneficio,Cic. N. D. 3, 28, 70: “imitari,id. Off. 3, 32, 113: “quiescite agere perverse,Vulg. Isa. 1, 16.—Comp.: “perversius,Tert. Apol. 2.—Sup.: “perversissime suspicari,Hier. in Matt. 1, 25.
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