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
- M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."