convorro

con-verro (or -vorro ), verri, versum, 3, v. a., to sweep or brush together, to sweep, clear away (mostly ante- and post-class.).

I.

Lit., Cato, R. R. 143, 2:

hoc egomet, tu hoc convorre,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 27:

capiam scopas atque hoc convorram,

id. ib. 2, 2, 51; 2, 2, 64; Publ. Syr. ap. Prisc. p. 900 P.:

stabulum,

Col. 7, 6, 6:

locum,

id. 8, 6, 6:

limina templorum osculis,

Arn. 1, p. 36 al. —

II.

Meton.: hereditates omnium, to scrape [p. 464] together, * Cic. Off. 3, 19, 78 (al. convertere). —Humorously: aliquem totum cum pulvisculo, to sweep thoroughly, to beat the dust out, i. e. to beat soundly, Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 6.