contorquens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contorqueo, contorquere, contorsi, contortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stir up/agitate, make rough (sea); utter with vigor; turn about/sway (emotions);; twist, make twisted/crooked; twirl/whirl, rotate/move in arc; brandish; fling;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...paelici et nuptae domus! Scylla et Charybdis Sicula contorquens freta minus est timenda, nulla non melior fera..." 
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...fluctu tegmina Chalcidicas fugiens Euripus harenas celsaque semiferum contorquens frena luporum surgis ab ostrifero medius, Neptune, Geraesto..."- P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...levis cursu, praefixa hastilia ferro, horum unum certo contorquens derigit ictu. substitit Aeneas et se collegit in arma..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...maestum inlacrimat templis ebur aeraque sudant. proluit insano contorquens uertice siluas fluuiorum rex Eridanus camposque per omnis..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...quercum aut conigeram sudanti cortice pinum indomitus turbo contorquens flamine robur, eruit (illa procul radicitus exturbata prona cadit..."