extorquet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extorqueo, extorquere, extorsi, extortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
extort; tear away, twist away; twist/wrench out;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...anxia et misera sit, cui fortuna saepe aliquid extorquet, et leuitas multo grauior, nusquam se continens. Vtrumque infestum..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...suus cuique favor aut ille laudantium clamor extorquet. XVIII. Pudet enim dissentire, et velut tacita quadam verecundia inhibemur..."XV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...necessitas poterat efficere, haustus brevis, facilis, unus extorquet. o si quis odium posset omnium bibere vitiorum! felix profecto..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...lapsoque supervenit, et pede collo impresso dextrae mucronem extorquet et alto fulgentem tingit iugulo atque haec insuper addit..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...armatus hanc arcem hostium inii, quoniam parens extorquet, recipe." Haec cum dixisset, gladium in publicum trans maceriam horti..."