Lewis Short
(verb) : antĕ-verto (archaic -vor-), ti, sum, 3, (as
* Dep antevortar, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1), to place one's self before, to go or come before, to precede.
* 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.
* Trop.
* 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.
* 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.).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary