(v. a.P. a.adv.) : in-verto, verti, versum, 3, v. a.
* To turn upside down, turn about, to upset, invert (class.).
* Lit.: pingue solum Fortes invertant tauri,to turn up, plough up,Verg. G. 1, 64: campum,id. ib. 3, 161: Boreas invertit ornos,upturns, overthrows,Luc. 6, 390: vinaria,to upset, empty,Hor. S. 2, 8, 39: mare,i. e. disturbed, rough,id. Epod. 10, 5: alveos navium inversos pro tuguriis habere,Sall. J. 18, 5: adeo vehementer talum inverti, ut minimum affuerim quin articulum defregerim,dislocated,App. Flor. 3, p. 134, 3: si polypus invertatur,Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 91: invertere se,to turn over,id. 32, 2, 5, § 13: cum in locum anulum inverterat,Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38.
* Esp., to dip, dye: albentes lanas,Sil. 16, 568.
* Trop., to invert, transp?*!se; to change. alter; to pervert; to exchange: ut cum semel dictum sit directe, invertatur ordo, et idem quasi sursum versus retroque dicatur,Cic. Part. 7, 24: quae in vulgus edita ejus verbis, invertere supersedeo, to alter, give in another form, Tac. A. 15, 63: virtutes,to alter, misrepresent,Hor. S. 1, 3, 55: lanas,to dye, color,Sil. 16, 569: Vertumnus Deus invertendarum rerum est,i. e. of barter, trade,Ascon. ad Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 59, § 154.
* Esp. of words, to pervert, misapply, use ironically (cf. inversio, I.): invertuntur verba, ut, etc.,Cic. de Or. 2, 65, 262.—Hence, inversus, a, um, P. a., turned upside down, inverted.
* Lit.: vomer inversus,Hor. Epod. 2, 63: carinae,Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 15: manus (opp. supina),id. 12, 25, 54, § 121: charta,Mart. 4, 87, 11: submovere Euros Pellibus inversis,turned inside out,Juv. 14, 187.
* Trop., inverted, perverted: annus, inverted, brought back to its beginning, i. e. completed, ended, Hor. S. 1, 1, 36: pro curia, inversique mores!perverted, corrupt,id. C. 3, 5, 7: consuetudo,Quint. 3, 9, 9: verba,perverted from their proper meanings, ambiguous,Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 131; so, too, verba,dark, obscure,Lucr. 1, 642. — Neutr. sing. as adv.: inversum, upside down: surculis inversum superpositis,Sol. 8.

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