to bend aside, turn off, turn away, turn, direct:
ponticulum: Ora dextrā equorum, V.: lumen ab illā, O.: volnus, averted, V.: alqd in dextram partem: ad regem
cursūs, V.: cervicem ad oscula,
H.—To twist, distort, put out of shape: partes corporis
detortae.—Of words: parce detorta, H.—Fig., to turn
aside, divert, pervert: animos a virtute: quae (voluntas testium)
nullo negotio flecti ac detorqueri potest: te alio pravum (i. e. ad aliud
vitium), H.—To distort, misrepresent: calumniando omnia
detorquendoque suspecta efficere, L.: verba prave
detorta, Ta.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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