to twist back, turn back, throw back: caput in sua terga (anguis), O.: ora ad os
Phoebi, O.: oculos ad urbem: tergo bracchia,
H.: manibus retortis, H.: pantherae
terga, to throw around, V.: retortis Litore violenter
undis, thrown back, H.: missilia in hostem,
Cu.: retorqueri agmen ad dextram conspexerunt, wheeled
back, Cs.—Fig., to change, alter: mentem, V.
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