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The other day, while I was explaining my interest in etymology recently rekindled by buying and reading Giambattista Vico‘s The New Science and the way I bring it to my students, I took the word vertere as an example.

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The other day, while I was explaining my interest in etymology recently rekindled by buying and reading Giambattista Vico‘s The New Science and the way I bring it to my students, I took the word vertere as an example.

Vertere and WMC #59, 60 and 61 « Jahsonic 2008

Those are poetical fictions, and that they can [1176] sistere aquam fluviis, et vertere sidera retro,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ex quo te primum vidi Pythia alio oculos vertere non fuit.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Subvert – root from Latin, 'sub' = 'under', 'vert' vertere = 'to turn' /

Archive 2004-12-12 2004

Subvert – root from Latin, 'sub' = 'under', 'vert' vertere = 'to turn' /

Washington State Political Report 2004

Notum est enim porcos, cum hortos amænissimos intrarint, nec lilium nec rosas aut flores alioqui pulcherrimos et suauissimos decerpere: Sed rostro in coenum prono, quicquid est luti et stercoris volutare, vertere et inuertere, donec impurissima, hoc est, suo genio apprimè congruentia eruant, vbi demum solida voluptate pascuntur.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Notum est enim porcos, cum hortos am鎛issimos intrarint, nec lilium nec rosas aut flores alioqui pulcherrimos et suauissimos decerpere: Sed rostro in coenum prono, quicquid est luti et stercoris volutare, vertere et inuertere, donec impurissima, hoc est, suo genio apprim� congruentia eruant, vbi demum solida voluptate pascuntur.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Namque coepere nobilitas dignitatem, populus libertatem in libidinem vertere, sibi quisque ducere, trahere, rapere.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

For _ubi_ with the perfect in the sense of a pluperfect, see Zumpt, S 506; and for the use of _vertere_ in an intransitive or reflective sense, S 145.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust