Tortor, tortôris, pen. pro. m. g. Cic.A tormentor: he that casteth a stone with a sling.Barbarus tortor. Hor. Carnifex & tortor. Ci. Animus tortor quatit occultum flagellum. Iuuena. The remorse of conscience playeth the part of a priuie tormentor. Si sapiens ad tortoris equuleum ire cogatur. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tortor, ōris, m. [torqueo, I. B. 2.], 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.