tortus
From LSJ
οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death
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.
