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                    "description": "versūra | vors- (noun F) : (), ,  verto\n* A turning round, twirling about, rotating.\n* Lit.: foliorum,Varr. R. R. 1, 46: ejus loci (coxendicum),id. L. L. 7, § 67 Müll.\n* Transf.\n* The turning-place, turn at the end of a furrow, Col. 2, 2, 28; Pall. 2, 3, 1.\n* In archit., a turn, corner, angle of a wall, Vitr 3, 1; 5, 6 fin.; 5, 12; or in a water conduit,id. 8, 7.\n* (Qs. a changing of one's creditor.) The borrowing of money to pay a debt (the class. signif. of the word); and hence, in gen., a borrowing, loan: versuram facere mutuam pecuniam sumere ex eo dictum est, quod initio qui mutuabantur ab aliis, non ut domum ferrent, sed ut aliis solverent, velut verterent creditorem,Fest. p. 379 Müll.: eos homines versuram a Carpinatio fecisse, qui pecunias Verri dedissent,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 76, § 186: sine mutuatione et sine versurā dissolvere,id. Tusc. 1, 42, 100: Salaminii cum Romae versuram facere vellent, non poterant,id. Att. 5, 21, 12; 15, 20, 4; id. Font. 5, 11; id. Fl. 20, 48: cum versuram facere publice necesse esset,Nep. Att. 2, 4; 9, 5.—Trop., Sen. Ep. 19, 9; id. Ben. 5, 8, 3: vereor, ne illud, quod tecum permutavi, versurā mihi solvendum sit,is to be paid by a new loan,Cic. Att. 5, 15, 2: versurā factā solvere,id. ib. 5, 1, 2: non modo versurā, verum etiam   venditione, si ita res coget, nos vindicabis, id. ib. 16, 2, 2: versura vetita,Tac. A. 6, 16.—Prov.: in eodem luto haesitas, vorsurā solves, you pay by borrowing, i. e. you get out of one difficulty by getting into another, Ter. Phorm. 5, 2, 15; Lact. 2, 8, 24."
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