extorqueret
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extorqueo, extorquere, extorsi, extortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
extort; tear away, twist away; twist/wrench out;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...exsanguibus, qui plus posset, imperium atque libertatem extorqueret. Fuere tamen extra coniurationem complures, qui ad Catilinam initio profecti..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...quem dederat ipse, magna ex parte iam gestum, extorqueret et raperet. Hoc ergo honore, quem et incipientes principes..."