torserit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
turn, twist; hurl; torture; torment; bend, distort; spin, whirl; wind (round);
sg. futperf. act. ind. 3rdsg. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...manu, ualidos dum praebeat ictussanguis et, hostilem cum torserit, exeat, hastam. nulla tamen plures hoc edidit aequore clades..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...propera. scio, quid mihi nocuerit, scio, quid me torserit, fruar et tacebo..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Achaten: 'suggere tela mihi, non ullum dextera frustra torserit in Rutulos, steterunt quae in corpore Graium Iliacis campis..."Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...frigora, voce roga. Conpositum discrimen erit, discrimina lauda: Torserit igne comam, torte capille, place. Brachia saltantis, vocem mirare..."