verdrehen
From LSJ
Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep
German > Latin
verdrehen, detorquere (eig. u. bildl., z.B. partes corporis: u. verbum in peius: u. omnia calumniando [[[boshaft]]]). – distorquere (eig., verzerren, z.B. oculos: u. alci os, membra). – depravare (verkehrt machen, entstellen, eig. n. bildl., z.B. membra: u. alqd narrando). – perverse interpretari (bildl., falsch auslegen). – das Recht v., ius torquere. – Verdrehen, das, -ung, die, distortio; depravatio.
