ob-verto, ti, sum, 3, v. a. To turn towards or against, to direct towards any thing (not in Cic. or Caes.): cujus ob os Graii ora obvertebant sua, Poet. 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.