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
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..."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..."