detorsit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detorqueo, detorquere, detorsi, detortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
turn/twist/bend/pull away/aside; deflect; deviate (path); divert; sway;; distort, bend out of shape; pervert, misrepresent, twist sense of, alter form;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...seuera institutam domo, periculosa etiam probis peiorum detorsit imitatio; numquam te fecunditatis tuae, quasi exprobraret aetatem, puduit, numquam..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...currum et spumantia frenis ora citatorum dextra detorsit equorum. dum trahitur pendetque iugis, hunc lata retectum lancea consequitur..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...adnixus viribus hastam; excepere aurae, vulnus Saturnia Iuno detorsit veniens, portaeque infigitur hasta. 'at non hoc telum..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Nero puerilibus statim annis vividum animum in alia detorsit: caelare pingere, cantus aut regimen equorum exercere; et aliquando..."