Deorsum, Aduerbium. Plaut.Downewarde.Directò deorium ferri.Cic.To fall straight downe.Deorsum cuncta feruntur pondera Lucr.Sursum deorsum cursitare.Terent.To trot vp and downe.Sursum deorsum, vltrò citróque commeare.Cic.To goe vp and downe, to and fro.Deorsum versum, vel Deorsum versus. Tere. Downward.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dĕorsum (dissyll. per synaeresin, Lucr. 1, 362; 2, 205 al.; cf., on the contrary, trisyll., id. 2, 202.—Also deorsus, like prorsus, quorsus, rursus, adversus, Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18; id. ib. 9, p. 236, 40; id. de Deo Socr. p. 47, 35; id. Flor. no. 15), adv. [contr. from devorsum, turned down], downwards, ka/tw, opp. to sursum (class.). I. To indicate motion: ego me deorsum duco de arbore, Plaut. Aul. 4, 8, 8: deorsum cuncta feruntur (opp. flammae expressae sursum), Lucr. 2, 202; 205; 6, 335; Cic. N. D. 1, 25, 69; id. Fin. 1, 6, 18; Cels. 5, 26, 31: reliqui (gestus) ante nos et dextra laevaque et sursum et deorsum aliquid ostendunt, Quint. 11, 3, 105: deorsum cadit, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 89; cf.: ut isto gladio deorsus ad meum Tlepolemum viam quaeram, i. e. in orcum, Ap. M. 8, p. 207, 18.—b. Pleonast. with versus (versum): ubi deorsum versus ibit, Cato R. R. 156, 4; Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 5; Quadrig. ap. Gell. 9, 1, 1: ubi eo veneris, clivos deorsum vorsum est,
right down before you
, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 35.—c. With sursum, up and down, a)/nw ka/tw: ne sursum deorsum cursites, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 47; cf.: naturis sursum deorsum, ultro citro commeantibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84: si sanguis sursum deorsumve erupit, Cels. 2, 8: cum terra quatitur et sursum ac deorsum movetur, Sen. Q. N. 6, 21.—II. To indicate position, locality, down, below: qui colunt deorsum, magis aestate laborant: qui sursum, magis hieme ... nec non sursum quam deorsum tardius seruntur ac metuntur, Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 3; Plaut. Aul. 2, 7, 5; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 34 sq.; Vulg. Deut. 4, 39 al.—Cf. on this art. Hand, Turs. II. p. 280282.
