torquentibus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
abl. pl. pres. act. part.dat. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
- L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...insana hominum ambitione, tot calumniatoribus in deterius recta torquentibus, parum tuta simplicitas est et plus futurum semper..." - M
XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...potui. non enim potestatis alicuius more consederam, nec torquentibus aliis agebam iudicem pater. ego tunc cuncta et passus..."