rĕ-torquĕo — Lewis & Short
rĕ-torquĕo, si, tum, 2, v. a.,
I to twist or bend back; to turn or cast back (class.; cf. reflecto).
I Lit.:
caput in sua terga (anguis),Ov. M. 3, 68:
ora,id. ib. 4, 715:
ora ad os Phoebi,id. ib. 11, 163: oculos saepe ad hanc urbem, * Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 2:
oculos,Ov. M. 10, 696:
omnium oculos in se,Quint. Decl. 8, 8:
tergo bracchia,Hor. C. 3, 5, 22; cf.:
manibus retortis,id. Ep. 2, 1, 191:
cervices,Plin. Pan. 34, 3:
ferocis equi colla,Ov. H. 4, 79:
pantherae terga,to wrap about, cast about, Verg. A. 8, 460:
amictum,id. ib. 12, 400:
crinem,to crisp, frizzle, Mart. 6, 39, 6:
litore violenter undas,to drive back, repulse, Hor. C. 1, 2, 13:
Rhoetum unguibus leonis,id. ib. 2, 19, 23:
vela ab Euboïcis aquis,Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 84:
viam,i. e. to return by the same way, Claud. Phaen. 27:
de bysso retorta,Vulg. Exod. 26, 1:
missilia in hostem,Curt. 6, 1, 15:
quod me retorsisti (a morte),Quint. Decl. 17, 18. — Mid.: ubi paulatim retorqueri agmen ad dextram conspexerunt, to wheel around, * Caes. B. C. 1, 69, 3.—
II Trop.: animum ad praeterita, to turn or cast back, Sen. Ben. 3, 3, 3:
scelus in auctorem,Just. 34, 4, 2; cf.:
crimina in eum,Dig. 38, 2, 14, § 6; and simply argumentum, to retort upon one's opponent, App. Flor. p. 360, 33:
mentem,to alter, change, Verg. A. 12, 841.