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tortuosus

tortuosus · adj

Full of crooks

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Where it lives

De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Adversus Marcionem 3 · 0.36/10k
Noctes Atticae 3 · 0.27/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tortŭōsus — Lewis & Short

tortŭōsus, a, um, adj.tortus.

I Full of crooks or turns, winding, tortuous (class.).

A Lit.: est autem (alvus) multiplex et tortuosa, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136: loca, id. ib. 2, 57, 144: serrula, id. Clu. 64, 180: per tortuosi amnis sinus flexusque, Liv. 27, 47, 10: serpens, Vulg. Isa. 27, 1: coluber, id. Job, 26, 13.—Comp.: quiddam tortuosius, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255.—

B Trop., entangled, involved, complicated, confused: tortuosum genus disputandi, Cic. Ac. 2, 31, 98: visa quaedam tortuosa et obscura, id. Div. 2, 63, 129: ingenium, id. Lael. 18, 65: res anxiae et tortuosae, Gell. 13, 11, 4.—Sup.: quis aperit tortuosissimam istam et implicatissimam nodositatem? Aug. Conf. 2, 10. —*

II Painful, torturing: rusci radix bibitur in tortuosiore urinā, i. e. in strangury, Plin. 21, 27, 100, § 173.—* Adv.: tortŭōsē, crookedly, tortuously: procedat serpens, Tert. adv. Valent. 4, 43 fin.

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