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
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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..." - M
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..."- L
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."