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tortus

tortus · P. a

Part. and P. a. of torqueo

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What it meant

1. tortus — Lewis & Short

tortus, a, um, P. a. of torqueo.

Part. and

2. tortus — Lewis & Short

tortus, ūs, m.torqueo.

I a twisting, winding; a wreath (poet.): tortu multiplicabili Draco, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: draco tortu terribilis, id. poët. Div. 2, 30, 63.—In plur.: serpens Nequicquam longos fugiens dat corpore tortus, Verg. A. 5, 276: bucinarum, Arn. 6, 196. — *

II A whirling, hurling: flexae habenae, Stat. Achill. 2, 421.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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