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