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tortor , ōris, m. torqueo, I. B. 2.,
I.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.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 63.177
    • Cicero, Philippics, 11.3.7
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 70
    • Lucan, Civil War, 3.710
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 4.12
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 14.5
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