torqueare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...servies? 'Sed naturale est' inquis 'ut desiderio amici torquear: da ius lacrimis tam iuste cadentibus. Naturale est opinionibus..." - P
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...regnare diu, deludat amantem. ei mihi, ne monitis torquear ipse meis! quidlibet eveniat, nocet indulgentia nobis— quod sequitur..."