anteverto

antĕ-verto (archaic -vor- ), ti, sum, 3, v. a. (as dep antevortar, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1), to place one's self before, to go or come before, to precede.

I.

Lit.:

maerores antevortunt gaudiis,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 60:

stella tum antevertens, tum subsequens,

Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 53:

itaque antevertit,

id. Mil. 17.—

II.

Trop.

A.

To anticipate: miror, ubi ego huic antevorterim, * Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 12:

mihi Fannius antevertit,

Cic. Am. 4, 16:

damnationem veneno,

Tac. A. 13, 30.—

B.

To prefer, to place before:

rebus aliis antevortar, ut, etc.,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1:

Caesar omnibus consiliis antevertendum existimavit, ut, etc.,

Caes. B. G. 7, 7 (where omnibus consiliis are not, as Herz. ad h. l. supposes, the abl., but analog. to rebus aliis in the preced. example, in the dat., e. g.: prae omnibus aliis consiliis id efficiendum existimavit ut, etc., Fr.).