tortor, ōris, 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.

— He that brandishes, handles. Balearis habenae, Luc. 3, 710.

— 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.

—* Trop.: occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum, Juv. 13, 195.