(verb) : dē-verto or dēvorto, ti, sum (in MSS. often confounded with diverto), 3, and n.
* Act.
* To turn away, turn aside any thing: comites suo hortatu,Luc. 6, 317: acies,id. 2, 470: ventura fata suo cursu,id. 6, 591; cf. Aur. Vict. Caes. 38.— Far more freq.
* Neutr. (i. q. no. I. B.), to turn or go aside from any place or any direction; to turn or go towards; to turn in, put up, lodge anywhere.
* Prop.: si qui Cobiamacho (vico) deverterentur,Cic. Font. 5, 9: juvat ire jugis, qua nulla priorum Castaliam molli devertitur orbita clivo,Verg. G. 3, 293: deverti ad amicos suos, Cato ap. Fest. p. 234, 26 Müll.: devortitur apud suum paternum hospitem,Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 56: apud aliquem,id. ib. 2, 2, 85; so Liv. 42, 1, 10; cf. ib. § 7: ad me in hospitium maximum,id. Poen. 3, 3, 60; cf. in amici hospitium,id. Mil. 3, 1, 146; id. Ps. 4, 2, 6: huc in tabernam,id. ib. 2, 2, 63: intro domum,id. Stich. 4, 1, 29; cf. Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 82: in hortos in quibus devertebatur, pergunt,Tac. H. 3, 11.
* Trop., to resort to, have recourse to (very rare): ad magicas artes,Ov. A. A. 2, 425: meas ad artes,id. M. 9, 62.
* Prop.: viā devertit,Liv. 44, 43: viā, Plin. Pan. 52 fin.: devertere ad cauponem, ad hospitem,Varr. R. R. 3, 4, 9; Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57: ad aliquem,id. Fin. 5, 2; id. Att. 10, 16 fin.: ad villam Philemonis,id. Fam. 7, 18, 3; cf.: ad se in Albanum,id. Mil. 19, 51: ad villam suam,id. ib.: in villam suam,id. Off. 2, 18 fin.: domum regis hospitis,id. Deiot. 6, 17: Massiliam,id. Phil. 13, 6; cf. Interamnam,Tac. H. 2, 64: Rhodum,Suet. Tib. 12 et saep.—With apud (late Lat.; cf. deversor): in pago apud familiares devertimus, Ap. M. 4 init.; cf. id. ib. 10, p. 238, 14.—Absol.: itineris causa ut deverterem,Cic. Att. 3, 7.
* Trop. (very rare): sed redeamus illuc, unde devertimus,have digressed,Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 4; so Liv. 35, 40: in haec devertisse non fuerit alienum,Plin. 2, 7, 5 fin. (Sillig, divertisse).

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