Pergis pugnantia secum / Frontibus adversis componere=--You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures.
Quocirca vivite fortes / Fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus=--Wherefore live as brave men, and front adversity with stout hearts.
Vincent steered by, and, joining me, hiccuped out, "In rebusadversis opponite pectora fortia.
There is a full account of the trial in an appendix to the De Utilitate ex Adversis Capienda (Basel, 1561).
As long ago as 1557 he had begun the treatise De Utilitate ex Adversis Capienda, a work giving evidence of careful construction, and one which, as a literary performance, takes the first rank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adversis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
