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
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..."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..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...erat, nominare potuit. qui comprensus extemplo traditusque Adranodoro torquendus, de se ipse haud cunctanter fassus conscios celabat; postremo..."