eversio

ēversĭo, ōnis, f. [everto, I. B.].

I.

Lit.

A.

An overthrowing.

1.

In gen.:

columnae,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5.—In plur.:

eversiones vehiculorum,

Plin. 22, 17, 20, § 43.—

2.

Esp., a destructive overthrow, subversion, destruction:

templorum,

Quint. 5, 10, 97:

urbis,

Flor. 1, 12, 7; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 69. —In plur.:

eversiones urbium,

Flor. 2, 16, 1.—

B.

A turning out, expulsion from one's possession:

possidentium,

Flor. 3, 13, 9.—

C.

A turning out, expulsion:

matricis,

Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 28.—

II.

Trop. (acc. to I. A. 2.), subversion, destruction:

hinc rerum publicarum eversiones,

Cic. de Sen. 12:

rei familiaris,

Tac. A. 6, 17:

omnis vitae,

Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 99; id. Fin. 5, 10, 28.