extortos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extorqueo, extorquere, extorsi, extortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
extort; tear away, twist away; twist/wrench out;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...fractos ruina aut per longam nervorum contractionem extortos minutatim. Aliquorum melior dici, aliquorum peior potest exitus: mors quidem..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...XVII. Videor iam cernere non spoliis provinciarum, et extorto sociis auro, sed hostilibus armis captorumque regum catenis triumphum..."