subverto

sub-verto ( -vorto ), ti, sum, 3, v. a., to turn upside down; to upset, overturn, overthrow (not in Cic. or Cæs.).

I.

Lit.:

lupinum aratro,

Col. 11, 2, 44:

mensam,

Suet. Ner. 47:

statuas,

id. Calig. 34:

tantas operum moles,

Ov. F. 6, 645:

silvam,

Luc. 3, 436:

subversi montes,

Sall. C. 13, 1:

Arisbe terrarum motu subversa,

Plin. 5, 31, 39, § 139:

Silvani simulacrum,

id. 15, 18, 20, § 77:

obices portarum,

Tac. A. 13, 39. — Absol., Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 13, 17:

calceus olim Si pede major erit, subvertet,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43. —

II.

Trop., to overthrow, ruin, destroy, subvert:

subversa jacebat Pristina majestas soliorum,

overthrown, subverted, Lucr. 5, 1136:

subversa Crassorum et Orphiti domus,

Tac. H. 4, 42:

florentes privignos per occultum,

Tac. A. 4, 71 fin.:

aliquem,

to ruin, undo, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 51:

avaritia fidem, probitatem ceterasque artes bonas subvertit,

Sall. C. 10, 4:

leges ac libertatem,

id. H. 1, 48, 10 Dietsch:

imperium,

id. ib. 1, 48, 8:

ad ea quae majores pepererunt, subvortunda,

id. ib. 1, 41, 3:

decretum consulis,

id. J. 30, 1:

leges,

Tac. A. 2, 36:

jura,

id. ib. 4, 30:

scriptam legem,

Quint. 7, 7, 6:

omnia praejudicia,

id. 5, 11, 13:

interpretationem adversarii (opp. confirmare),

id. 7, 6, 2:

artem orandi,

id. 9, 4, 3:

testamentum,

Val. Max. 7, 8, 1:

antiquiora beneficia,

Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 6:

omnis domus delatorum interpretationibus,

Tac. A. 3, 25:

opes,

Luc. 8, 273:

quaesitum imperium brevis momenti culpā,

Just. 6, 3, 8:

patriae mores,

id. 12, 5, 2.