torquendus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
nom. sg. fut. pass. part.
Examples
- M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Messanae" motus laterum qualis esse ad verbera solet torquendus aut vox qualis dolori exprimitur eruenda, cum mihi comoedi..." - M
VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...fingo, urar, lacerer, et non probem. si videtur, torquendus sum, iudices, ut hoc desinam dicere, nec me, iudices..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erat, nominare potuit. qui comprensus extemplo traditusque Adranodoro torquendus, de se ipse haud cunctanter fassus conscios celabat; postremo..."