tortor | Tortor, ōris (noun M) : torqueo, I. B. 2.
* An executioner, tormentor, torturer.
* Lit.
* 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.
* Trop.: occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum,Juv. 13, 195.
* An epithet of Apollo, as the flayer of Marsyas, under which name he was worshipped in a part of Rome, Suet. Aug. 70.—*