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ex-torquĕo, si, tum, 2, v. a., to twist out, wrench out, wrest away (class.).

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. In gen.: ferrum e manibus, Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 2; id. Planc. 41, 98: arma e manibus, id. Brut. 2, 7; Curt. 8, 2, 4; for which: tibi sica de manibus extorta est, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 16: pedem mensulae, Petr. 136: ut inhaerentem atque incubantem Italiae extorqueret Hannibalem, tear away, force away, Flor. 2, 6, 57.
    2. B. In partic.
      1. 1. Of limbs, to wrench out, put out of joint, dislocate (syn. luxo): articulum, Sen. Ep. 104: omnibus membris extortus et fractus, crippled, Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 9; cf. Sen. Ep. 66 med.; and: prava extortaque puella, Juv. 8, 33: in servilem modum lacerati atque extorti, i. e. dislocated by torture, tortured, Liv. 32, 38, 8; cf. absol.: extorque, nisi ita factum’st, put me to the torture, Ter. Ad. 3, 4, 37.
      2. 2. To obtain by force, to extort (syn.: eripio, exprimo): ut pecunia omnis Stajeno extorta atque erepta sit, Cic. Clu. 28 fin.: nihil exprimere ab egentibus, nihil ulla vi a miseris extorquere potuit, id. Prov. Cons. 3, 5: vi et metu extortum, id. Pis. 35, 86: a Caesare per Herodem talenta Attica quinquaginta extorsistis, id. Att. 6, 1, 25: obsidibus summa cum contumelia extortis, Caes. B. G. 7, 54 fin.
  2. II. Trop., to wrest out or away, obtain or take away by force, to tear away, to extort (syn.: eripio, demo, aufero, etc.): hoc est vim afferre, Torquate, sensibus: extorquere ex animis cognitiones verborum, quibus imbuti sumus, Cic. Fin. 2, 5, 16; cf.: sententias de manibus judicum vi quadam orationis, id. de Or. 2, 18, 74: suffragium populi per vim, Liv. 25, 4, 4: extorquebat enim vitam vis morbida membris, Lucr. 6, 1225 Lachm.: opinionem veritas extorquebit, Cic. Clu. 2, 6: suam citius abiciet humanitatem quam extorquebit tuam, id. Lig. 5, 16: patientiam saepe tranquillissimis pectoribus, Sen. Clem. 1, 1; cf.: mihi hunc errorem, Cic. de Sen. 23, 85: cui sic extorta voluptas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 139; cf. ib. 57: cum extorta mihi veritas esset, Cic. Or. 48, 160.
    With ut: quoniam extorsisti, ut faterer, id. Tusc. 1, 7, 14.