(verb) : ē-verto or -vorto, ti, sum, 3
* To overturn, turn upside down (syn. demolior, destruo, extinguo, diruo, deleo, etc.).
* Lit.
* In gen. (very rare): aequora ventis,to upturn, agitate,Verg. A. 1, 43; cf. aquas,Ov. H. 7, 42: mare,Sen. Ep. 4: campum,i. e. to plough,Val. Fl. 7, 75: cervices,to twist,Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 131 Ruhnk.—More freq. and class. (not in Caes.)
* Trop. (Acc. to I. B.)
* To overturn any thing from its position, to overthrow, upset, throw down: naviculam,Cic. de Or. 1, 38, 174; id. Par. 3, 1, 20; id. Fin. 4, 27 fin.; cf. id. Rep. 1, 34: pinum,Verg. G. 1, 256; Plin. 16, 31, 56 § 130; cf. poët.: Ismara,i. e. the trees of Ismarus,Stat. Th. 6, 107: currum,Curt. 4, 15; cf. equum,Prop. 4 (5), 10, 8.—Transf., of persons: eversus,thrown down,Plin. 21, 19, 77, § 132; 26, 13, 85, § 137.—Designating the term. ad quem: si quis Athon Pindumve revulsos Sede sua, totos in apertum everteret aequor,Ov. M. 11, 555; cf.: tecta in dominum,id. ib. 1, 231.
* Transf., to overthrow, subvert, destroy: urbes (with diripere),Cic. Off. 1, 24: Carthaginem,id. Rep. 6, 11: Trojam,Ov. M. 13, 169: castellum,Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 34: funditus arces,Sil. 17, 376.
* To turn out, drive out, expel a man from his possession: ut agro evortat Lesbonicum, quando evortit aedibus,Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 15; so, adolescentem bonis,id. ib. 1, 2, 177: pupillum fortunis patriis,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 51: eos fortunis omnibus,id. Div. in Caecil. 6, 21; id. Fl. 5: hunc funditus bonis,id. Rosc. Am. 39 fin.
* To overturn, overthrow: ab imo summa,Lucr. 5, 163: aliquem non judicio neque disceptatione, sed vi atque impressione evertere,to ruin,Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 8: aliquem fortunis omnibus,id. Div. in Caec. 6, 21.
* To overthrow completely, to subvert, ruin, destroy: funditus aratores,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 18 fin.: funditus civitates,id. Pis. 35, 86: eversa per te et perdita civitas,id. ib. 24, 57; id. Lael. 7, 23; cf. Quint. 2, 16, 4; Verg. G. 1, 500: funditus amicitiam,Cic. Fin. 2, 25; cf.: penitus virtutem,id. ib. 3, 3: totum genus hoc regiae civitatis,id. Rep. 2, 29: leges, testamenta,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 19; cf. id. Cat. 1, 7 fin.: constitutam philosophiam,id. Ac. 2, 5, 15; cf. definitionem,id. 2, 6 fin.: finitionem,Quint. 7, 3, 23: opus,id. 2, 17, 34: majestatem dictatoriam et disciplinam militarem,Liv. 8, 30 fin.: patrimonium,to waste, squander,Dig. 47, 6, 1: pietatem,Lucr. 3, 84: spem,Ov. M. 13, 623: Crassos, Pompeios,to ruin,Juv. 10, 108: titulum, to erase, Capit. Gord. Tert. 34.

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