torserunt
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...campum sonipes, crebroque simillima nimbo trans ripam ualidi torserunt tela lacerti. ingreditur pulsa fluuium statione uacantem Caesar..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...suae contionis excepit; in imperatorem suum legiones pila torserunt; dissedit plebs tota cum patribus; publicum consilium senatus..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...finis quaeritur, sed materia mutatur. Nostri nos honores torserunt? plus temporis alieni auferunt; candidati laborare desiimus? suffragatores incipimus..." 
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...pectore toto pronus Ialmenides aeratae robora portae torserunt: quanta pariter ceruice gementes profringunt inarata diu Pangaea iuuenci..."