Just ask the ancient Romans who used tormentum vigilae (waking torture) to extract information from their enemies. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt, et non tanget illos tormentum mortis. ❋ Bls (2008)
No torture of body like unto it, Siculi non invenere tyranni majus tormentum, no strappadoes, hot irons, Phalaris 'bulls, ❋ Unknown (2007)
Maximum tormentum quod excogitare, vel docere te possum, est ipse amor. ❋ Unknown (2007)
'Tis suavis amaricies, dolentia delectabilis, hilare tormentum; ❋ Unknown (2007)
Praesertim quum tormentum ei vita sit, bona spe fretus, acerba vita velut a carcere se eximat, vel ab aliis eximi sua voluntate patiatur. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Non enim res gestae versibus comprehendendae sunt, quod longe melius historici faciunt, sed per ambages deorumque ministeria et fabulosum sententiarum tormentum praecipitandus est liber spiritus. ' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
_Torment_ comes from _tormentum_, a machine (engine) for throwing stones to inflict _torture_. ❋ Elmer W. Cavins (N/A)
The _tormentum_, which was an elastic instrument, discharged stones and darts, and was continued until the discovery of gunpowder. ❋ John Lord (1852)
Some English witches in Somersetshire used instead to say, "Thout, tout, throughout and about;" and when they wished to return from their meeting they said "Rentum, tormentum!" ❋ Unknown (1850)
So giddy-swift whirls and spins this immeasurable tormentum of a Revolution; wild-booming; not to be followed by the eye. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
* [2271] Siculi non invenere tyranni tormentum majus ❋ Unknown (1692)
Siculi non invenere tyranni tormentum majus [The Sicilian tyrants devised no worse a torture]. ❋ Unknown (1692)
In Differtatione XXIII. de Mofibus Italicor. opina - bar ego, verbum hoc effluxiffe ab Italico Collare, quo verbo Floren - tini defignanc tormentum dclla Corda. ❋ Unknown (1773)
a certain man was accused of theft, and condemned by him to the torture of the cross (_ad crucis tormentum damnasset_), with rustic simplicity sent the criminal to the church that he might confess his sins, first taking his word that he would return after confession. ❋ Various (N/A)
saepe mero caluisse uirtus. tu lene tormentum ingenio admoues plerumque duro, tu sapientium ❋ Horace (1912)
set tibi tormentum praebeat ista facis. pallens herba rubet: color est hic semper amantum; ❋ Anonymous (1912)
Boord, I tell you, could carry sich a car-load ov the dead langidges.) "In agro vero Louthiano et Midensi," says he, "nomine gaudent quodam secundum linguam Anglicanam significante bombardam seu tormentum; quia ex eis tanquam ex telis jaculatoriis liquorem facibus immittere solent. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)
