obversus+orienti

ob-verto, ti, sum, 3, v. a.

To turn [p. 1249] towards or against, to direct towards any thing (not in Cic. or Cæs.): 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.—

Mid., to turn one's self to or towards, turn to any thing:

obvertor ad undas,

Ov. H. 19, 191.—Hence, obversus, a, um, P. a., turned towards or against, directed towards.

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,

App. M. 2, p. 127; cf.:

profligatis obversis,

the opponents, enemy, Tac. A. 12, 14.—

Trop., turned towards, inclined to, engaged in:

ad sanguinem, et caedes,

Tac. H. 3, 83:

obversi militum studiis,

id. ib. 3, 11.