ob-verto, ti, sum, 3, v. a.
I To turn towards or against , to direct towards any thing (not in Cic. or Caes.): cujus ob os Graii ora obvertebant sua, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 39; also ap. Cic. Fam. 9, 26, 2: mihi cornua, Plaut. Ps. 4, 3, 3: arcūs in aliquem, Ov. M. 12, 605: fenestras in aquilonem, Plin. 14, 21, 27, § 133: pelago proras, Verg. A. 6, 3; without pelago: cornua velatarum obvertimus antennarum, direct , id. ib. 3, 549: obstantes dum vult obvertere remos, to turn against (the water), to play , Ov. M. 3, 676: ordines ad clamorem, Liv. 27, 18.—
II Mid., to turn one's self to or towards , turn to any thing: obvertor ad undas, Ov. H. 19, 191.
III —Hence, obversus , a, um, P. a., turned towards or against , directed towards.
A Lit.: faciemque obversus in agmen utrumque, Ov. M. 12, 467: ad matrem, Tac. A. 4, 54: domicilia (apium) ad orientem, Col. 9, 7, 5; for which: frons (ornithonis) orienti, id. 8, 3, 1: Caucasus quā soli est obversus, Sol. 65.—With simple acc.: obversus orientem, Ap. Met. 2, 28, 20; cf.: profligatis obversis, the opponents , enemy , Tac. A. 12, 14.—
B Trop., turned towards , inclined to , engaged in : ad sanguinem, et caedes, Tac. H. 3, 83: obversi militum studiis, id. ib. 3, 11.