versus Adverb

Translations

  1. toward
  2. in the direction of
  3. in specified direction
  4. towards quarter named

Example Sentences

Publius Ovidius Naso

dumque ibi quadrupedes caelestia pabula carpunt noxque vicem peragit, thalamos deus intrat amatos, versus in Eurynomes faciem genetricis, et inter bis sex Leucothoen famulas ad lumina cernit levia versato ducentem st

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses IV
Gaius Julius Caesar

Dimittit quoque versus legationes; obtestatur ut in fide maneant.

~ Cäsar, Bellum Gallicum VII
Hyginus

Idem occidens Sagittario et Capricorno exorto, inclinatus ad caput versus cum Ariete et Tauro rectus exoritur.

~ Hygin, De Astronomia III
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

inc omnis pendet Lucilius, hosce secutus, mutatis tantum pedibus numerisque, facetus, emunctae naris, durus conponere versus.

~ Horaz, Sermonum Liber I

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