Intorqueo, intorques, intorsi, intortum, intorquére. Pla. Col. To wreath, or wrest: to turne, or wind in: to throw: hurle, or cast in.Intorquere mentum.Cic.To wreath or wrest the chin. Intorquere hastam alicui. Vir. To throw or hurle a d art at one.Intorquere telum in aliquem.Cic.Iaculum intorquens enittit in auras. Vir. He flang forth his dart and made it flie in the ayre.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-torquĕo, torsi, tortum, 2, v. a., to twist, turn round, turn to; to wrench, sprain (class.). I.Lit.: mentum in dicendo,
to distort
, Cic. de Or. 2, 66: oculos, Verg. G. 4, 451: caulem, Plin. 19, 6, 34, 114: talum, to sprain, Auct. B. Hisp. 38: vereor, ne Pompeio quid oneris imponam, mh/ moi *gorgei/hn kefalh\n deinoi=o pelw/rou intorqueat, Cic. Att. 9, 7, 3.—Pass. or with se, to twist or wrap itself: involvulus, quae in pampini folio intorta implicat se, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 64: cum subito ... procella nubibus intorsit sese, Lucr. 6, 124: ipsi palmites intorquentur, Plin. 17, 22, 35, 183. —II.Transf.A.To brandish, hurl, or throw towards: hastam tergo,
to launch at its back
, Verg. A. 2, 231: jaculum alicui,
to hurl against one
, id. ib. 10, 322; Ov. M. 5, 90; Sil. 1, 304: telum, Verg. A. 10, 381: saxum, Sil. 7, 623: telum in hostem, Verg. A. 10, 882; Sen. Ep. 45. — B.To throw into confusion: orationem, Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 65; cf. mores,
to corrupt
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pervert
, Pers. 5, 38.— III.Trop., to cast upon, throw out against: alternis versibus intorquentur inter fratres gravissimae contumeliae, Cic. Tusc. 4, 36, 77: vocem diram, Sil. 11, 342.— Hence, intortus, a, um, P. a., twisted, wound; crisped, curled; trailed, prolonged; perplexed, involved; distorted, corrupted: spirae modo, Plin. 2, 25, 23, 91: intorto circa bracchium pallio,