retorsit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →retorqueo, retorquere, retorsi, retortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
twist back; cast back; fling back; turn aside;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...numquam magis aethera contraegit equos cursumque polo rapiente retorsit,defectusque pati uoluit raptaeque laboreslucis, et attraxit nubes..." - M
XIV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...compositus sum, rursus in se cogitationes meas, rursus retorsit oculos, et hominem, quem ab incommoda caritate vel satietas..." 
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ferri lumine diro turbatus sonipes sese dominumque retorsit in latus atque auidam transmisit deuius hastam. acrior hoc iuuenem..."- P
Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fugam cursu temptavit equorum, aversos totiens currus Iuturna retorsit. heu, quid agat? vario nequiquam fluctuat aestu, diversaeque vocant..." - P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...forte canenti) carmine delenit; post hunc sacer ora retorsit Tmolus ad os Phoebi: vultum sua silva secuta..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ferrum. ille dolore ferox caput in sua terga retorsit vulneraque adspexit fixumque hastile momordit, idque ubi vi multa..."