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aversos

aversos is a Latin form of averto, meaning “turn away, avert; divert; drive off, rout”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative plural masculine.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.79: … livis suberat, neque ei, qui antecesserat, morantibiis opem ferre poterant, equites vero ex loco superiore in aversos tela coniciebant, tum magno erat in periculo res. Relinquebatur, ut, cum eiusmodi locis esset appropinquatum, …

Propertius, Elegiae 4.9.12: auersos cauda traxit in antra boues,

All forms of averto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.