torqueantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
pl. pres. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...philosophiae contulerunt, dum vult describere primum quemadmodum alia torqueantur fila, alia ex molli solutoque ducantur, deinde quemadmodum tela..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...exprimuntur tela in potestate mittentis sunt in quantum torqueantur. 2. 'Ira' inquit Aristoteles 'necessaria est, nec quicquam sine..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...infinitum interest, utrum excusso lacerto torqueantur an remissa manu effluant, gladius idem et stringit et transforat, quam presso..."Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...voluptatibus maximis saepe priventur et durissimis animi doloribus torqueantur, sapientia est adhibenda, quae et terroribus cupiditatibusque detractis..."