pervorto

per-verto ( pervorto ), ti, sum, 3, v. a., 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.

A.

To overthrow, subvert; to destroy, ruin, undo, corrupt:

cito homo pervorti potest,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 52:

labefactare atque pervertere amicitiam aut justitiam,

Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 70:

quidam, propositis malorum et bonorum finibus, omne officium perverterunt,

id. Off. 1, 2, 5:

omnia jura divina atque humana,

id. ib. 1, 8, 26:

ipse (Quinctius) postquam Junium pervertit, totam causam reliquit,

id. Quint. 39, 108:

hostium vim se perversurum putavit, pervertit autem suam,

id. Div. 2, 56, 115; id. Brut. 79, 273:

aliquem amicitiā alicujus,

Tac. A. 13, 45:

aliquem,

id. H. 3, 38:

aliquos et ambitio pervertet,

Quint. 12, 8, 2.—

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.—

B.

Trop., perverse, not right, wrong, evil, bad:

dies pervorsus atque advorsus,

Plaut. Men. 5, 5, 1:

nihil pravum et perversum,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 30:

quid magis inquinatum, deformatum, perversum, conturbatum dici potest,

id. Har. Resp. 12, 25:

homo praeposterus atque perversus,

id. Clu. 26, 71:

sapientia,

id. Mur. 36, 75:

mos,

id. Rosc. Com. 18, 56:

bellum Contra fata deūm perverso numine poscunt,

Verg. A. 7, 584:

perversa grammaticorum subtilitas,

Plin. 35, 3, 4, § 13:

ambitio,

Quint. 10, 7, 21:

generatio perversa,

wicked, Vulg. Deut. 32, 20 et saep. —As subst.: perversum, i, n., a wrong, evil:

in perversum sollers,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 5, 3.—Hence, adv.: perversē ( pervor-sē ), awry, the wrong way.

1.

Lit.:

sella curulis in senatu perverse collocata,

Suet. Galb. 18.—

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.