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
- M
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..." - M
X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...propera. scio, quid mihi nocuerit, scio, quid me torserit, fruar et tacebo..." - P
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..." - P
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..."