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
- L
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...armatus hanc arcem hostium inii, quoniam parens extorquet, recipe." Haec cum dixisset, gladium in publicum trans maceriam horti..."