telum+tormentumve+missum+cs

tormentum, i, n. [torqueo, an instrument with which any thing is turned or twisted].

Lit.:

tormenta telorum,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57:

tormentis Mutinam verberavit,

id. Phil. 8, 7, 20; Caes. B. G. 2, 8; 4, 25; id. B. C. 1, 17; Hirt. B. G. 8, 14, 5:

machinator bellicorum tormentorum,

Liv. 24, 34, 2; Sil. 6, 279; Tac. A. 2, 81; id. H. 3, 20; 4, 23; Curt. 4, 3, 13.—

Transf., a missile, shot thrown by the engine:

quod unum genus tegumenti nullo telo neque tormento transici posse,

Caes. B. C. 2, 9;

telum tormentumve missum,

id. ib. 3, 51; 3, 56; Plin. 8, 23, 35, § 85; Stat. Th. 9, 145; Curt. 4, 2, 9.—

A (twisted) cord, rope: praesectis [p. 1879] crinibus tormenta effecerunt, Caes. B. C. 3, 9:

falces tormentis introrsus reducebant,

id. B. G. 7, 22, 2:

laxare,

Quint. Decl. 19, 15; Grat. Cyn. 26; Auct. Priap. 6:

stuppeum,

App. Mag. p. 276, 14:

ferreum,

i. e. fetters, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 12; cf.:

sine tormentorum injuriā,

Petr. 102.—

An instrument of torture, a rack.

Lit.:

verberibus ac tormentis quaestionem habere,

Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5; 11, 4, 8; 13, 9, 21:

quaerere de aliquo tormentis,

id. Deiot. 1, 3; id. Clu. 63, 176 sq.; id. Mil. 21, 57; 22, 58; id. Sull. 28, 78; id. Off. 3, 9, 39; id. Part. Or. 14, 50; id. Tusc. 5, 28, 80; Caes. B. G. 6, 18; Quint. 2, 20, 10; 3, 5, 10; Suet. Tib. 19; 58; 62 al.:

tu lene tormentum ingenio admoves,

a rack of a mild sort, Hor. C. 3, 21, 13.—

Transf., in gen., torture, anguish, pain, torment, etc.:

cruciatus et tormenta pati,

Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 6; cf.:

tormento liberari,

Col. 6, 7, 1; so of the torture or pain of sickness, Cels. 7, 11; Plin. 19, 8, 44, § 155; 20, 4, 13, § 27; 22, 22, 37, § 79:

tormenta fortunae,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 1: caecae suspitionis, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 4:

invidiā Siculi non invenere tyranni Majus tormentum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 59; Juv. 2, 137:

esse in tormentis,

Plin. Ep. 8, 23, 9:

incredibiles cruciatus et indignissima tormenta pati,

id. ib. 1, 12, 6:

tormentum sibi injungere,

id. Pan. 86, 1:

bene tormentis secubituque coli,

Ov. Am. 3, 10, 16; so of the pain of love, Mart. 7, 29, 1:

tormentis gaudet amantis,

Juv. 6, 209:

animi tormenta latentis in aegro Corpore,

id. 9, 18.—

A clothes-press, mangle, Sen. Tranq. 1, 3.