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
- L
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..." - P
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..."