noun

tortor

gen. tortōris · gender masculine · decl. 3rd

torqueo, I. B. 2.

an executioner; torturer

an executioner, tormentor, torturer.

In gen.: cum jam tortor, atque essent tormenta ipsa defessa, Cic. Clu. 63, 177;… •

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. —

He that brandishes; handles

He that brandishes, handles. Balearis habenae, Luc. 3, 710.—

an epithet of Apollo; as the flayer of Marsyas

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.—*

figuratively •

Trop.: occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum, Juv. 13, 195.

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