torquentium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
gen. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...capilli, spiritus coactus ac stridens, articulorum se ipsos torquentium sonus, gemitus mugitusque et parum explanatis uocibus sermo praeruptus..."Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...verbera, non ignes, non ira eo acrius torquentium, ne a femina spernerentur, pervicere, quin obiecta denegaret. sic primus..."