extorta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extorqueo, extorquere, extorsi, extortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
extort; tear away, twist away; twist/wrench out;
abl. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. pl. perf. pass. part.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...conari ac velle desistis. [16] Quotiens tibi iam extorta est ista sica de manibus, quotiens [vero] excidit casu..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...venisse tempus premendae plebis putabant reciperandique iura quae extorta secessione ac vi patribus essent. In primis Marcius Coriolanus..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...Dilectus advorsus vos habiti, pecuniae publice et privatim extortae, praesidia deducta atque imposita, ex lubidine leges imperantur..."Liber III
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...caliginis tantum perturbationis offusum, quam cum praerepta et extorta defensioni suae cerneret, in quibus omnem fiduciam reponebat. Consilii..."