extorqueat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extorqueo, extorquere, extorsi, extortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
extort; tear away, twist away; twist/wrench out;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...patri". Nihil est tam arduum, quod non improbitas extorqueat. Dum dicit: "Patrem excitabo ", irrepsi tamen et male repugnanti..."VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...nobis sollicita lex est, ut, quod praestat, extorqueat. dedit caeco talionis actionem: num manus recusantis inpellit? iniuriarum, caedis..."