dē-torquĕo — Lewis & Short
dē-torquĕo, si, tum (detorsum,
I v. infra no. 1. A. 2.), 2, v. a. and n.
I Act., to turn or bend aside, to turn off, turn away (class.).
A In gen.
1 Lit.:
ponticulum,Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59:
cornua (antennarum),Verg. A. 5, 832:
habenas,id. ib. 11, 765:
lumen ab illā,Ov. M. 6, 515 et saep.—Poet.:
vulnus,Verg. A. 9, 746.—
b With in or ad and acc., to turn in any direction, to direct towards:
(orbis partem) a latere in dextram partem,Cic. Univ. 7 fin.; so,
caudam in dexterum, in laevum,Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 207:
proram ad undas,Verg. A. 5, 165:
cursus ad regem,id. ib. 4, 196:
cervicem ad oscula,Hor. Od. 2, 12, 25 et saep.—
2 Trop.:
voluptates animos a virtute,Cic. Off. 2, 10, 37:
quae (sc. voluntas testium) nullo negotio flecti ac detorqueri potest,id. Cael. 9 fin.; id. de Or. 1, 17.—Of etymolog. derivation: Marrucini vocantur, de Marso detorsum nomen, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 871 P.; so,
parce detorta,Hor. A. P. 53.—With indication of the term. ad quem:
aliquem ad segnitiem luxumque,Plin. Pan. 82, 6:
vividum animum in alia,Tac. A. 13, 3; cf.:
te pravum alio (i. e. ad aliud vitium),Hor. S. 2, 2, 55.—
B In partic., to turn or twist out of shape, to distort.
1 Lit.:
partes corporis detortae,Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 17:
Vatinius corpore detorto,Tac. A. 15, 34.—
2 Trop., to distort, misrepresent:
calumniando omnia detorquendoque suspecta efficere,Liv. 42, 42; cf.:
recte facta (with carpere),Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 6:
sincera rectaque ingenia,id. Pan. 70, 5; cf. Tac. Or. 28 fin.:
verbum aliquod in pejus,Sen. Ep. 13 med.; cf.:
verba, voltus in crimen,Tac. A. 1, 7:
sermonem in obscenum intellectum,Quint. 8, 3, 44.— *
II Neutr., to turn or go in any direction:
in laevam,Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 93.