detortas
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;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
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..."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..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...habebunt uerba fidem, si Graeco fonte cadent parce detorta. Quid autem Caecilio Plautoque dabit Romanus, ademptum Vergilio Varioque..."Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...principio crebrisque eius officiis commemoratis, ne verba prave detorta neu convivalium fabularum simplicitas in crimen duceretur postulavit..."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..."