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adversĭo, ōnis, f. [adverto], a turning or directing one thing to or toward another: animi, Cic. Arch. 7, 16; Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 13.

adversĭpĕdes, ἀντίποδες, antipodes, Gloss. Gr. Lat.

adversĭtas, ātis, f. [adversus], opposition, contrariety.

  1. I. In gen.: magnam adversitatem scorpionibus et stellionibus putant esse, a great natural hostility, antipathy, Plin. 11, 25, 30, § 90.
  2. II. Esp., misfortune, suffering, Cassiod.

adversĭtor (archaic advor-), ōris, m. [adversus], one who goes to meet another; a slave who went to meet his master, in order to conduct him home:advorsum ierant proprie locutus est, nam adversitores dicuntur,” Don. ad Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 1; cf. also Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 23, and 2, 32. Among the dramatis personæ of the Mostellaria of Plautus, PHANISCVS ADVORSITOR is found; but the word is nowhere used in the play itself.