Detorqueo, detorques, detorsi, detortum, & rarò detorsum, detorquêre. Col. To how: to turne out of the right way Also to turne a thing from the one side to the other.Detorsit latere in dextram partem.Cic.Detorquere in læuam. Plin. To turne on the right hand.Ceruicem detorquere ad oscula. Hor. To turne the necke to kisse one.Cornua torquere & detorquere. Vir. To turne and returne.Imminutæ & detortæ corporis partes, quibus repugnant Aptæ & integræ.Cic.Partes of the bodie maimed, & writhed out of fashion.Cursus detorquere ad aliquem.Virg.To turne his course to one.Labra dicentis ne detorqueantur. Quint. That the speaker writhe not his lippes.Ab aliquo lumen detorquere.Ouid.To turne his eie from one.Oculos detorquet ad vndas.Val. Flac.Hee turneth his eyes to, or looketh vpon.Se aliò detorquere. Hor. Viam detorquere ad amnem.Val. Flac.To turne to the riuer.Detorquere vulnus.Virg.To caste aside a stroke. Detorquere, per translationem.Cic. Voluptates blandissisimæ dominæ, sæpe maiores partes animi virtute detorquent. Do turne the greatest parte of our minde from the right race of vertue.Detorquere rectè facta.Plin. iun.To interprete or take euil, things that are well done.Prauè detorta opinio. Colu. An opinion mistaken, and facre from the true meaning.Flectere & detorquere voluntatem alicuius. Cice. To turne or writhe a mans minde to an other purpose.
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dē-torquĕo, si, tum (detorsum, v. infrano. 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.