to twist out, wrench out, wrest away: ferrum e manibus: horum gladios: dextrae mucronem, V.: in servilem modum extorti, wrenched, L.: extorque, put me to the torture, T.—To obtain by force, extort:
ut pecunia Staieno extorta sit: vi et metu extortum: a Caesare
per Herodem talenta: obsidibus summā cum contumeliā
extortis, Cs.—Fig., to wrest out, force away, obtain by force, tear
away, extort: defessis libertatem, S.: suffragium populi per vim, L.: mihi hunc errorem: cui
sic extorta voluptas, H.: extorsisti, ut
faterer, forced me to: poëmata (of the
years), H.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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