Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Adversaria

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ADVERSA'RIA, sc. scripta. A day-book, or common-place book, in which accounts or memorandums were put down at the moment to be subsequently transcribed into a ledger, or into a regular journal. Cic. pro Rosc. Com. 2.