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
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..."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..."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..."