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(adv.prep.) : versus (vors-), adv. and prep., v. verto
* P. a. fin.
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versus (vors-), a, um, Part. of verto.
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versus | vors- (noun M) : (), (ante-class. collat. form of the plur. versi, Laev. ap. Prisc. p. 712 P.: versorum, Laber. ib.: versis, Val. ib.), verto, a turning round, i. e. of the plough.
* A furrow, Col. 2, 2, 25; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177.
* Transf., a line, row.
* In gen.: in versum distulit ulmos,Verg. G. 4, 144: remorum,Liv. 33, 30, 5; cf. Verg. A. 5, 119: foliorum,Plin. 15, 29, 37, § 122: creber catenarum,Sil. 7, 658.
* A land-measure, = Gr. πλέθρον, Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 1.
* A kind of dance, or a turn, step, pas in a dance, Plaut. Stich. 5, 7, 2.
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