detortae
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;
dat. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
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Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...nocet sed medetur specie nocendi. Quemadmodum quaedam hastilia detorta ut corrigamus adurimus et adactis cuneis, non ut frangamus..." - M
Liber Tertius
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...omnis partis corporis quam, eodem usu, inminutas aut detortas habere. rerum autem cognitiones, quas vel comprehensiones vel perceptiones..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...habebunt uerba fidem, si Graeco fonte cadent parce detorta. Quid autem Caecilio Plautoque dabit Romanus, ademptum Vergilio Varioque..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...principio crebrisque eius officiis commemoratis, ne verba prave detorta neu convivalium fabularum simplicitas in crimen duceretur postulavit..." - P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...pertinebat, ut sincera et integra et nullis pravitatibus detorta unius cuiusque natura toto statim pectore arriperet artis honestas..."