(verb) : vergo, ĕre (
* Perf. and sup. wanting, acc. to Neue, Formenl. 2, pp. 507, 584; but versi is assumed as perf. by Prob. Cath. 1486, and is read, Ov. P. 1, 9, 52, by Merkel, ex conj. for the MS. vertit; acc. to Charis. 3, 1, p. 218, and Diom. 1, p. 366, the perf. is verxi, but it does not occur in extant writings), and n.
* Act., to bend, turn, incline, verge (only poet., and very rare; syn. inclino): in terras igitur quoque solis vergitur ardor, mid.,turns itself, verges,Lucr. 2, 212: et polus aversi calidus quā vergitur Austri,Luc. 1, 54: Strongyle vergitur ad exortus solis,Sol. 6, § 3: illi imprudentes ipsi sibi saepe venenum Vergebant,i. e. turned in, poured in,Lucr. 5, 1010: in gelidos amoma sinus,Ov. P. 1, 9, 52: spumantesque mero paterae verguntur,Stat. Th. 6, 211; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 244.
* Neutr., to bend, turn, incline itself; of places, to lie, be situated in any direction (the class. signif. of the word; syn.: tendo, pertineo, jaceo).
* Lit.: ab oppido declivis locus tenui fastigio vergebat in longitudinem passuum circiter quadringentorum,Caes. B. C. 1, 45: collis ad flumen Sabin,id. B.G. 2, 18: Galliae pars ad Septentriones,id. ib. 1, 1: portus in meridiem,Liv. 37, 31, 10: tectum aedium in tectum inferioris porticūs,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 4, § 14: omnes partes in medium,id. N.D. 2, 45, 116.
* Trop., to turn, bend, incline, etc.: nisi Bruti auxilium ad Italiam vergere quam ad Asiam maluissemus,Cic. Phil. 11, 11, 26: illuc (i. e. in Tiberium) cuncta vergere,Tac. A. 1, 3: suam aetatem vergere,that he was in the decline of his age,id. ib. 2, 43: sed ne patriae quidem bonus tutor aut vindex est, si ad voluptates vergit,Sen. Vit. Beat. 15, 3: animus nec ad recta fortiter nec ad prava vergentis,id. Tranq. 1, 3: nox vergit ad lucem,verges towards,Curt. 4, 7, 9: vergente jam die,declining,Suet. Oth. 7; so, jam senecta,Tac. A. 4, 41: vergens annis femina,id. ib. 13, 19: aegri vergentes in lethargum,Plin. 32, 10, 38, § 116: colore languido in candidum vergente,id. 12, 12, 26, § 43.