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ἀλλ᾽ οὐδὲ εἷς τέκτων ὀχυρὰν οὕτως ἐποίησεν θύραν, δι᾽ἧς γαλῆ καὶ μοιχὸς οὐκ εἰσέρχεται → but no carpenter ever made a door so secure that a weasel or a womanizer could not pass through it
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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
tortus: a, um, Part. and P. a. of torqueo.
tortus: ūs, m. torqueo.
I a twisting, winding; a wreath (poet.): tortu multiplicabili Draco, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: draco tortu terribilis, id. poët. Div. 2, 30, 63.—In <number opt="n">plur.</number>: serpens Nequicquam longos fugiens dat corpore tortus, Verg. A. 5, 276: bucinarum, Arn. 6, 196. — *
II A whirling, hurling: flexae habenae, Stat. Achill. 2, 421.
