extorsisses
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extorqueo, extorquere, extorsi, extortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
extort; tear away, twist away; twist/wrench out;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...articuli punctiunculas sentiunt: adhuc dissimulamus et aut talum extorsisse dicimus nos aut in exercitatione aliqua laborasse. Dubio..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...populi passos; Postumium Pyrgensem suffragium populo Romano extorsisse, concilium plebis sustulisse, tribunos in ordinem coegisse, contra populum Romanum..."