torquebatur
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. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...patris conquerens, parricidium fratris ac Didae scelus incusans torquebatur. intromissi deinde Thyrsis quidam Stuberraeus et Beroeaeus Alexander iniectis..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...pudebat sterilitatis insolitae, nec minus erubescebat fame, quam torquebatur; quum pariter a te necessitatibus eius pudorique subventum..."