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
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...patris conquerens, parricidium fratris ac Didae scelus incusans torquebatur. intromissi deinde Thyrsis quidam Stuberraeus et Beroeaeus Alexander iniectis..."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..."