I.staring, keen, piercing, wild, stern; hence, in gen., wild, fierce, grim, gloomy, savage, in aspect or character (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: trux, truculentus, ferus): ille tuens oculis immitem Phinea torvis, Ov. M. 5, 92: “oculi,” Quint. 11, 3, 75; Val. Max. 5, 1, ext. 6: “cernimus astantes lumine torvo Aetnaeos fratres,” Verg. A. 3, 677; so, “lumine,” Ov. M. 9, 27; and absol.: “aspicit hanc torvis (sc. oculis),” id. ib. 6, 34: “vultus,” Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 12; Sen. Ira, 2, 35, 3; Val. Max. 3, 8, 6; Quint. 6, 1, 43; 11, 3, 160: “facies,” Sen. Ira, 1, 1, 3: “forma minantis,” Ov. P. 2, 8, 22: “aspectus (equi),” Plin. 8, 42, 64, § 154 optima torvae Forma bovis, Verg. G. 3, 51: “frons (Polyphemi),” Verg. A. 3, 636: “torvi cymba senis,” Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 24: feroci ingenio torvus praegrandi gradu, Pac. ap. Fest. p. 355: “torvu' draco serpit, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 106: angues,” Verg. A. 6, 571: “leaena,” id. E. 2, 63: “aper,” Prop. 2, 3, 6: “taurus,” Ov. M. 8, 132: “juvencus,” id. ib. 6, 115; “10, 237: Medusa,” Ov. A. A. 2, 309: “Mars,” Hor. C. 1, 28, 17: “Ister (as a horned river-god),” Val. Fl. 8, 218 et saep.: ferox et torva confidentia, Pac. ap. Fest. p. 355 Müll.; cf. “proclia,” Cat. 66, 20: “vina,” i. e. harsh, sharp, tart, Plin. 17, 23, 35, § 213.—Comp.: “voce hominis et tuba rudore torvior,” App. Flor 3, p. 357.—Sup.: “leonis torvissima facies,” Arn. 6, p. 196.—
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torvum and torva , adverb., fiercely, sternly, sharply, etc.: “torvumque repente Clamat,” Verg. A. 7, 399: “torvum lacrimans,” Stat. Th. 12, 127: “torva tuens,” Verg. A. 6, 467; Val. Fl. 2, 255. — Adv.: torvĭter , sharply, severely, sternly (ante-class.): aliquem increpare, Enn. ap. Non. 516, 16 (Ann. v. 79 Vahl.); Pomp. ap. Non. 516, 15 (Com. Fragm. v. 18 Rib.).
