torsit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Garamante perustoMarmaridae uolucres, aequaturusque sagittas 680Medorum, tremulum cum torsit missile, Mazax,et gens quae nudo residens Massylia dorsoora..."Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pronoignis in Hesperium cecidit latus. atra Charybdissanguineum fundo torsit mare; flebile saeuilatrauere canes. Vestali raptus ab araignis..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tamen obscuro pia polluit ora ueneno aut torsit lenta tristia fata fame, sanctam Romana uitam sed morte peregit..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...haec loca cum se exitum quaerens spiritus torsit, accendat flammam ipso affrictu necesse est, deinde flammis latius fusis..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uelocitatem currentibus ; hic, cum uehementer concitatus ipse se torsit, arbusta siluasque, conuoluit et aedificia tota corripiens in altum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...senatores et equites Romanos uno die flagellis cecidit, torsit, non quaestionis sed animi causa; 4. deinde adeo inpatiens..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...quis sperat responsurum sibi, quem dilatione lassauit, expectatione torsit. Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur, et ideo..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Saitae. ecce, procul saeuos sterili se robore trunci torsit et inmisit (iaculum uocat Africa) serpens perque caput Pauli..."