antĕ-verto (archaic -vor-), ti, sum, 3, v. a. (as dep antevortar, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1), to place one's self before, to go or come before, to precede.
I Lit.: maerores antevortunt gaudiis, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 60: stella tum antevertens, tum subsequens, Cic. N. D. 2, 20, 53: itaque antevertit, id. Mil. 17.—
II Trop.
A To anticipate : miror, ubi ego huic antevorterim, * Ter. Eun. 738: mihi Fannius antevertit, Cic. Am. 4, 16: damnationem veneno, Tac. A. 13, 30.—
B To prefer , to place before : rebus aliis antevortar, ut, etc., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 5, 1: Caesar omnibus consiliis antevertendum existimavit, ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 7 (where omnibus consiliis are not, as Herz. ad h. l. supposes, the abl., but analog. to rebus aliis in the preced. example, in the dat., e. g.: prae omnibus aliis consiliis id efficiendum existimavit ut, etc., Fr.).