torquentur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...remis: tecto stetit aequore bellum. iam non excussis torquentur tela lacertisnec longinqua cadunt iaculato uolnera ferro,miscenturque manus..."de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...uoluptatem, sed ipsos uoluptas habet, cuius aut inopia torquentur aut copia strangulantur, miseri si deseruntur ab illa, miseriores..."Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...incluso fremunt, incerta nutant lumina et uersi retro torquentur oculi, rursus immoti rigent. nunc leuat in auras altior..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...cuius horrido murmure imperiosisque verbis dii superi manesque torquentur, excogitator iste mortis alterius advocat, non ut exorati manes..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...ualidis hastilibus et bona bello cornus; Ituraeos taxi torquentur in arcus. nec tiliae leues aut torno rasile buxum..."Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...laetamur iis, quae recordamur. stulti autem malorum memoria torquentur, sapientes bona praeterita grata recordatione renovata delectant. est autem..."