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torvaque

torvus, staring, keen, piercing, wild, stern, fierce, grim, savage (esp. in look or expression)

  1. …interiore brevi convertitur orbe. Et quo sit earum stellarum admirabilior aspectus, has inter veluti rapido cum gurgite flumen torvus Draco serpit supter supraque revolvens sese conficiensque sinus e corpore flexos. eius cum totius est praeclara species tum in…

    M. Tullius Cicero, de Natura Deorum

  2. …duces, et vulgi stante corona surgit ad hos clipei dominus septemplicis Aiax, utque erat impatiens irae, Sigeia torvo litora respexit classemque in litore vultu intendensque manus agimus, pro Iuppiter inquit ante rates causam, et mecum confertur…

    Ovid, Metamorphoses

  3. …parentes. non secus ac supero pariter si cardine lapsae Pallas et asperior Phoebi soror, utraque telis, utraque torva genis flavoque in vertice nodo, illa suas Cyntho comites agat, haec Aracyntho ; tunc, si fas oculis…

    Statius, P. Papinius, Thebais

  4. …nostro, insequeris crimen Scelus hoc patriaeque patrique, officium tibi sit. Te vere coniuge digna est, quae torvum ligno decepit adultera taurum discordemque utero fetum tulit. Ecquid ad aures perveniunt mea dicta tuas An inania venti verba…

    Ovid, Metamorphoses

  5. …viro potuisset carpere Procne, nec fera crudeles Colchis durasset in iras, editus Aeolia nec si foret iste Creusa torvus ab hoc Athamas insanos flecteret arcus, hunc quamquam Hectoreos cineres Troiamque perosus turribus e Phrygiis flesset missurus Ulixes septima…

    Statius, P. Papinius, Silvae

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