torture
torture
v. trans.
Rack: Ar. and P. στρεβλοῦν, βᾰσᾰνίζειν, P. διαστρεβλοῦν.
Ill-treat: P. and V. αἰκίζεσθαι; see ill-treat.Met., P. and V. λῡπεῖν, ἀ̆νῑᾶν ; see distress.
Be tortured, be on the rack: use also Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰτείνεσθαι.
v. trans.
Rack: Ar. and P. στρεβλοῦν, βᾰσᾰνίζειν, P. διαστρεβλοῦν.
Ill-treat: P. and V. αἰκίζεσθαι; see ill-treat.Met., P. and V. λῡπεῖν, ἀ̆νῑᾶν ; see distress.
Be tortured, be on the rack: use also Ar. and P. πᾰρᾰτείνεσθαι.
torture
subs.
Ar. and P. βά̆σᾰνος, ἡ.
Rack: Ar. and P. τροχός, ὁ.
Ill-treatment: P. and V. αἰκί̄α, ἡ, αἴκισμα, τό.
Met., P. and V. λύπη, ἡ, ἀ̆νί̄α, ἡ ; see distress, pain.Put to the torture, v.: P. ἀναβιβάζειν ἐπὶ τὸν τραχόν.
Be put to the torture: P. ἐπὶ τὸν τροχὸν ἀναβαίνειν, Ar. and P. ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχοῦ στρεβλοῦσθαι.
Demand for torture: P. ἐξαιτεῖν (acc.).
Offer (a slave) for torture: P. ἐκδιδόναι.
subs.
Ar. and P. βά̆σᾰνος, ἡ.
Rack: Ar. and P. τροχός, ὁ.
Ill-treatment: P. and V. αἰκί̄α, ἡ, αἴκισμα, τό.
Met., P. and V. λύπη, ἡ, ἀ̆νί̄α, ἡ ; see distress, pain.Put to the torture, v.: P. ἀναβιβάζειν ἐπὶ τὸν τραχόν.
Be put to the torture: P. ἐπὶ τὸν τροχὸν ἀναβαίνειν, Ar. and P. ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχοῦ στρεβλοῦσθαι.
Demand for torture: P. ἐξαιτεῖν (acc.).
Offer (a slave) for torture: P. ἐκδιδόναι.
TORTURE
s. Torment Vid:
Pain as a punishment tormenta -orum neuter (torture applied in order to extort confession; then = the instrument used for that purpose: such were equuleus the rack; fidiculae ropes or cords so used; tabulares; the two former were for stretching out the limbs the latter for pressing the body together; ignis fire; Vid: Sen. De Ir. 3 19 1 Ruhnken): carnificina (the act of torturing; then also the place of torture Liv. 2 23): carnificinae locus (place of torture Suet. Tib. 62): cruciatus (the pain occasioned by being tortured; also figuratively). Examination by torture quaestio ac tormenta: to examine by torture tormentis quaerere or quaestionem habere; tormentis quaerere or fidiculis exquirere de aliquo; tormentis interrogare aliquem: to put anybody to torture aliquem dare in tormenta or in cruciatum; dedere aliquem tormentis; tormenta alicui admovere: to be obliged to submit to torture carnificinam subire; tormentis excruciari; in equuleum conjici or imponi or ire: to bear or endure torture vim tormentorum perferre: to maintain the truth under torture vi tormentorum adductum in veritate manere: not even to be satisfied with his execution unless it was accompanied with torture ne simplici quidem genere mortis contentum esse (Liv. 4 24).
s. Torment Vid:
Pain as a punishment tormenta -orum neuter (torture applied in order to extort confession; then = the instrument used for that purpose: such were equuleus the rack; fidiculae ropes or cords so used; tabulares; the two former were for stretching out the limbs the latter for pressing the body together; ignis fire; Vid: Sen. De Ir. 3 19 1 Ruhnken): carnificina (the act of torturing; then also the place of torture Liv. 2 23): carnificinae locus (place of torture Suet. Tib. 62): cruciatus (the pain occasioned by being tortured; also figuratively). Examination by torture quaestio ac tormenta: to examine by torture tormentis quaerere or quaestionem habere; tormentis quaerere or fidiculis exquirere de aliquo; tormentis interrogare aliquem: to put anybody to torture aliquem dare in tormenta or in cruciatum; dedere aliquem tormentis; tormenta alicui admovere: to be obliged to submit to torture carnificinam subire; tormentis excruciari; in equuleum conjici or imponi or ire: to bear or endure torture vim tormentorum perferre: to maintain the truth under torture vi tormentorum adductum in veritate manere: not even to be satisfied with his execution unless it was accompanied with torture ne simplici quidem genere mortis contentum esse (Liv. 4 24).
v. torquere (PROP. and figuratively): extorquere: excarnificare (PROP. and figuratively): in equuleum imponere injicere conjicere (PROP.): cruciare: excruciare (PROP. and figuratively): cruciatus alicui admovere: cruciatu aliquem afficere (to be tortured). To be tortured by conscience conscientia morderi (Cic. Tusc. 4 20 45); agitari conscientiae angore fraudisque cruciatu (Cic. De Legg. 1 14 40); me stimulant conscientiae maleficiorum meorum (Cic. Parad. 2 §18).
torture (subs.):
I. Pain inflicted with a view to obtain confession or evidence:
1. tormentum (almost always pl.: used also for the instrument of t.): to make inquiry by t., tormentis quaerere, Cic. Deiot. 1, fin.: per t. quaerere [quid sit veri], Plin. Ep. 10, 97 (96), 8: to do so with the severest t.s, omnibus t. vehementissimis quaerere, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: cf. verberibus ac t. quaestionem habere, id. Ph. 11, 2, 5: to wring out a confession by t., tormentis confessionem exprimere, Suet. Tib. 19: to apply t., t. adhibere, Cic. Off. 3, 9, 39.
2. quaestio (of slaves: lit. examination, which in their case was made under t.): to reveal anything under t. [of a slave], in quaestione aliquid dicere, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: to demand a slave to be examined under t., servum in quaestionem postulare, ib. 64, extr.
II. Pain inflicted by way of punishment or cruelty:
1. crŭciātus, ūs (cruel and inhuman treatment): to be put to death with cruel t.s, cum cruciatu necari, Caes. B. G. 5, 45: cf. ib. 56, omnibus cruciatibus affectus necatur: to be mangled with extreme t.s, per ultimos c. lacerari, Curt. 6, 11: to be hurried away to t., in cruciatum abripi, Ter. Andr. 4, 4, 47: to submit to (any) t., dare se in c., Cic. R. Am. 41, 119.
2. supplĭcium: (any very severe or cruel penalty, esp. capital punishment of a cruel kind): to kill a person with the most cruel t.s, aliquem omni s. cruciatum necare, Cic. Man. 5, init.: cf. s. miserrima et crudelissima perferre [fig.], id. ad Pomp. [Att. 8, 11].
3. tormenta, orum (cf. supr. 1): to put a person to death by fire and every conceivable t., aliquem igne atque omnibus t. excruciatum interficere, Caes. B. G. 6, 18 (19): the sing. occurs in this sense, Suet. Tib. 62 (fidicularum simul urinaeque tormento). See also verb (foll. art.).
4. carnĭfĭcīna (executioner's work): to undergo t., c. subire, Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 78: Liv. Instruments of t.: tormenta: (gen. term): Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89 [also perh. so to be understood in the passages given under I.]: specially ĕquŭleus (v.RACK ); fĭdĭcŭlae, arum (cords for distending the limbs): Suet. l. c.: Sen.: also, verbera, ignis; enumerated among the instrumenta crudelitatis, Curt. 6, 11.
III. Any extreme suffering:
1. crŭciātus: to undergo incredible t.s (from gout), incredibiles c. [et indignissima tormenta] pati, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 6: to cause dreadful t.s, taetros c. ciere, Cic. poet. Fin. 2, 29, 94: used of mental agony, id. Att. 11, 11 (confectus jam cruciatu maximorum dolorum).
2. tormentum: no acuter t. than envy, invidia non majus t., Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 59: the t.s of Fortune, Fortunae t., Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 1: cf. supr. (1).
3. expr. by dŏlōres, with some intensive word: v.PAIN , TORMENT .
4. carnĭfĭcīna: Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, init. (used as a very strong expr., downright torture: quum omnis aegritudo miseria est, tum carnificina est aegritudo).
I. Pain inflicted with a view to obtain confession or evidence:
1. tormentum (almost always pl.: used also for the instrument of t.): to make inquiry by t., tormentis quaerere, Cic. Deiot. 1, fin.: per t. quaerere [quid sit veri], Plin. Ep. 10, 97 (96), 8: to do so with the severest t.s, omnibus t. vehementissimis quaerere, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: cf. verberibus ac t. quaestionem habere, id. Ph. 11, 2, 5: to wring out a confession by t., tormentis confessionem exprimere, Suet. Tib. 19: to apply t., t. adhibere, Cic. Off. 3, 9, 39.
2. quaestio (of slaves: lit. examination, which in their case was made under t.): to reveal anything under t. [of a slave], in quaestione aliquid dicere, Cic. Clu. 63, 176: to demand a slave to be examined under t., servum in quaestionem postulare, ib. 64, extr.
II. Pain inflicted by way of punishment or cruelty:
1. crŭciātus, ūs (cruel and inhuman treatment): to be put to death with cruel t.s, cum cruciatu necari, Caes. B. G. 5, 45: cf. ib. 56, omnibus cruciatibus affectus necatur: to be mangled with extreme t.s, per ultimos c. lacerari, Curt. 6, 11: to be hurried away to t., in cruciatum abripi, Ter. Andr. 4, 4, 47: to submit to (any) t., dare se in c., Cic. R. Am. 41, 119.
2. supplĭcium: (any very severe or cruel penalty, esp. capital punishment of a cruel kind): to kill a person with the most cruel t.s, aliquem omni s. cruciatum necare, Cic. Man. 5, init.: cf. s. miserrima et crudelissima perferre [fig.], id. ad Pomp. [Att. 8, 11].
3. tormenta, orum (cf. supr. 1): to put a person to death by fire and every conceivable t., aliquem igne atque omnibus t. excruciatum interficere, Caes. B. G. 6, 18 (19): the sing. occurs in this sense, Suet. Tib. 62 (fidicularum simul urinaeque tormento). See also verb (foll. art.).
4. carnĭfĭcīna (executioner's work): to undergo t., c. subire, Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 78: Liv. Instruments of t.: tormenta: (gen. term): Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 89 [also perh. so to be understood in the passages given under I.]: specially ĕquŭleus (v.
III. Any extreme suffering:
1. crŭciātus: to undergo incredible t.s (from gout), incredibiles c. [et indignissima tormenta] pati, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 6: to cause dreadful t.s, taetros c. ciere, Cic. poet. Fin. 2, 29, 94: used of mental agony, id. Att. 11, 11 (confectus jam cruciatu maximorum dolorum).
2. tormentum: no acuter t. than envy, invidia non majus t., Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 59: the t.s of Fortune, Fortunae t., Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 1: cf. supr. (1).
3. expr. by dŏlōres, with some intensive word: v.
4. carnĭfĭcīna: Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, init. (used as a very strong expr., downright torture: quum omnis aegritudo miseria est, tum carnificina est aegritudo).
torture (v.):
1. torqueo, si, tum, 2 (both lit. and fig.): to t. any one like a slave, aliquem servilem in modum t., Suet. Aug. 27: Cic. Fig.: to be t.d by envy or fear, invidia, metu torqueri, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 37: Cic. Comps.: (1.) extorqueo, 2 (strengthened from simple verb): t. me! (and see) if such is not the fact, extorque, nisi ita factum est, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 37: Liv.: more freq. =TO EXTORT , WRING FROM (q. v.). (2.) distorqueo, 2 (fig.): he t.d (them) in a novel way, novo quaestionis genere distorsit, Suet. Dom. 10: also fig., Sen.
2. crŭcio, excrŭcio, 1: v.TO TORMENT .
3. lăcĕro, 1 (lit. to tear and mangle: hence, to use with great cruelty): grief t.s the heart, aegritudo l. animum, Cic. poet. Tusc. 3, 13: more fully, animum doloribus l., Vell. 2, 130: cf. Auct. Dom. 23, init., omni crudelitate l., Ov.
4. other phrr may be derived from preced. art. and artt.RACK (subs. and verb): e. g. tormenta adhibere, tormenta admovere (Curt. 6, 11), in equuleum injicere, etc.
1. torqueo, si, tum, 2 (both lit. and fig.): to t. any one like a slave, aliquem servilem in modum t., Suet. Aug. 27: Cic. Fig.: to be t.d by envy or fear, invidia, metu torqueri, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 37: Cic. Comps.: (1.) extorqueo, 2 (strengthened from simple verb): t. me! (and see) if such is not the fact, extorque, nisi ita factum est, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 37: Liv.: more freq. =
2. crŭcio, excrŭcio, 1: v.
3. lăcĕro, 1 (lit. to tear and mangle: hence, to use with great cruelty): grief t.s the heart, aegritudo l. animum, Cic. poet. Tusc. 3, 13: more fully, animum doloribus l., Vell. 2, 130: cf. Auct. Dom. 23, init., omni crudelitate l., Ov.
4. other phrr may be derived from preced. art. and artt.