tortor, ōris, m. [torqueo, I. B. 2.], an executioner, tormentor, torturer.
I Lit.
A In gen.: cum jam tortor, atque essent tormenta ipsa defessa, Cic. Clu. 63, 177; id. Phil. 11, 3, 7; id. Fin. 4, 12, 31; Sen. Ep. 14, 5; Hor. C. 3, 5, 50; Juv. 14, 21. —
B He that brandishes , handles. Balearis habenae, Luc. 3, 710.—
C Tortor , ōris, an epithet of Apollo , as the flayer of Marsyas , under which name he was worshipped in a part of Rome, Suet. Aug. 70.—*
II Trop.: occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum, Juv. 13, 195.