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
- L
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."