everto

ē-verto or -vorto, ti, sum, 3, v. a., to overturn, turn upside down (syn. demolior, destruo, extinguo, diruo, deleo, etc.).

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen. (very rare):

aequora ventis,

to upturn, agitate, Verg. A. 1, 43; cf.

aquas,

Ov. H. 7, 42:

mare,

Sen. Ep. 4:

campum,

i. e. to plough, Val. Fl. 7, 75:

cervices,

to twist, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 131 Ruhnk.—More freq. and class. (not in Caes.),

B.

In partic.

1.

To overturn any thing from its position, to overthrow, upset, throw down:

naviculam,

Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 174; id. Par. 3, 1, 20; id. Fin. 4, 27 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 34:

pinum,

Verg. G. 1, 256; Plin. 16, 31, 56 § 130; cf.

poët.: Ismara,

i. e. the trees of Ismarus, Stat. Th. 6, 107:

currum,

Curt. 4, 15; cf.

equum,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 8.— Transf., of persons:

eversus,

thrown down, Plin. 21, 19, 77, § 132; 26, 13, 85, § 137.—Designating the term. ad quem:

si quis Athon Pindumve revulsos Sede sua, totos in apertum everteret aequor,

Ov. M. 11, 555; cf.:

tecta in dominum,

id. ib. 1, 231.—

b.

Transf., to overthrow, subvert, destroy:

urbes (with diripere),

Cic. Off. 1, 24:

Carthaginem,

id. Rep. 6, 11:

Trojam,

Ov. M. 13, 169:

castellum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 34:

funditus arces,

Sil. 17, 376.—

2.

To turn out, drive out, expel a man from his possession:

ut agro evortat Lesbonicum, quando evortit aedibus,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 15; so,

adolescentem bonis,

id. ib. 1, 2, 177:

pupillum fortunis patriis,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51:

eos fortunis omnibus,

id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21; id. Fl. 5:

hunc funditus bonis,

id. Rosc. Am. 39 fin. —

II.

Trop. (Acc. to I. B.)

A.

To overturn, overthrow:

ab imo summa,

Lucr. 5, 163:

aliquem non judicio neque disceptatione, sed vi atque impressione evertere,

to ruin, Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 8:

aliquem fortunis omnibus,

id. Div. in Caec. 6, 21.—

B.

To overthrow completely, to subvert, ruin, destroy:

funditus aratores,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18 fin.:

funditus civitates,

id. Pis. 35, 86:

eversa per te et perdita civitas,

id. ib. 24, 57; id. Lael. 7, 23; cf. Quint. 2, 16, 4; Verg. G. 1, 500:

funditus amicitiam,

Cic. Fin. 2, 25; cf.:

penitus virtutem,

id. ib. 3, 3:

totum genus hoc regiae civitatis,

id. Rep. 2, 29:

leges, testamenta,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 19; cf. id. Cat. 1, 7 fin.:

constitutam philosophiam,

id. Ac. 2, 5, 15; cf.

definitionem,

id. 2, 6 fin.:

finitionem,

Quint. 7, 3, 23:

opus,

id. 2, 17, 34:

majestatem dictatoriam et disciplinam militarem,

Liv. 8, 30 fin.:

patrimonium,

to waste, squander, Dig. 47, 6, 1:

pietatem,

Lucr. 3, 84:

spem,

Ov. M. 13, 623:

Crassos, Pompeios,

to ruin, Juv. 10, 108: titulum, to erase, Capit. Gord. Tert. 34.