contorsit
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quia summa fugit. galeas et scuta uirorum pilaque contorsit uiolento spiritus actu intentusque tulit magni per inania caeli..."Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tecta ferarum 100detulit atque ipsas hausit, subitisque frementisuerticibus contorsit aquas et reppulit aestusfortior Oceani. nec Phoebum surgere sentitnox..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...fusis nudato milite telis 670inuenit arma furor: remum contorsit in hostemalter, at hi totum ualidis aplustre lacertisauolsasque rotant..."Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uertice pinumstridentisque comas, Thebanam qualis Agaueninpulit aut saeui contorsit tela Lycurgi 575Eumenis, aut qualem iussu Iunonis iniquaehorruit Alcides..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...alio ponitur, ut de agitatore "gubernator magna contorsit equum vi", aut [ut Livius Scipionem a Catone "adlatrari" solitum..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...vobis pugna defendite raptum.' dixit, et adversos telum contorsit in hostis procurrens; sonitum dat stridula cornus et auras..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Tereaque Harpalycumque et Demophoonta Chromimque; quotque emissa manu contorsit spicula virgo, tot Phrygii cecidere viri. procul Ornytus armis..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...equorum. at pater omnipotens densa inter nubila telum contorsit, non ille faces nec fumea taedis lumina, praecipitemque immani..."