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
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..."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..."