The corpus record — Latin

tortor

tortor · m

an executioner

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 16 · 9.11/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Controversiae 7 · 1.06/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 1 · 0.95/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9 · 0.76/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tortor — Lewis & Short

tortor, ōris, m.torqueo, I. B. 2.,

I an executioner, tormentor, torturer.

I Lit.

A In gen.: cum jam tortor, atque essent tormenta ipsa defessa, Cic. Clu. 63, 177; id. Phil. 11, 3, 7; id. Fin. 4, 12, 31; Sen. Ep. 14, 5; Hor. C. 3, 5, 50; Juv. 14, 21. —

B He that brandishes, handles. Balearis habenae, Luc. 3, 710.—

C Tortor, ōris, an epithet of Apollo, as the flayer of Marsyas, under which name he was worshipped in a part of Rome, Suet. Aug. 70.—*

II Trop.: occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum, Juv. 13, 195.

Where it came from

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