The famous statue of the Dying Gaul preserved in the Capitol at Rome shows a torc on the warrior's neck.
It must be noted that whereas twisted torcs of bronze are fairly common in England and France there is only one bronze torc in the Irish National Collection, and, as mentioned above, the provenance of this is doubtful.
The twisted torc appears to have been replaced in Ireland about the second century B.
A torc of this type was also found by Schliemann in the royal treasury in the second city of Troy.
In some of the Irish examples the body of the torc is plain, or was grooved to simulate the appearance of the twisted torc.
In later times the torc was the distinguishing ornament of the Celt, and there are many allusions to torcs in classical writers.
This find has led to a good deal of speculative opinions varying as to whether the model of the torc was imported into Ireland from the south, or whether the Irish gold could have reached the Mediterranean in pre-Mycenæan times.
Our first excursion the next morning was to the ruins of Muckross Abbey, on a peninsula which divides the Lower Lake from Torc Lake.
They are three in number--the Upper, the Lower, andTorc Lake.
Subsequent reflection has not altered this, and, after the trip through the Gap of Dunloe and across the lakes, I should certainly place this one to the Torc cascade.
That was the Torc cascade, and, after tea, we set out to walk to it.
Titus Manlius Torquatus took the golden torc from whence he derived his name from a Gaul he slew in single combat B.
This interesting inquiry is entered on at large by Mr. Samuel Birch, in two able articles on the Torc of the Celts.
The torc is introduced at Persepolis among the tribute brought to Darius; and in the mosaic of Pompeii, Darius and his officers are represented wearing it at the battle of Arbela.
Amongst the native personal ornaments in the Scottish Museum, is a massive but plain penannular ring of the class to which the name of solid torc is now applied.
It would be easy to multiply examples of torc ornaments more or less similar in type found in this country, and especially in Ireland; but none that I have seen possess an equal degree of elegance and perfection of workmanship.
The torc as well as the funicular armilla and other relics of corresponding type, though known to the Romans, were regarded by them as barbarian decorations.
Within it lay one of the curious ornamental collars more particularly described in a later page,[326] to which the name of Beaded Torc is now assigned.
The funicular torc was undoubtedly in use in the latest Pagan period, and the whole Cairnmure hoard may very consistently be assigned to it.
Gale describes a torc found near Old Verulam in 1748, as "a wreathed or vermicular ornament, being a solid chain of gold.
Soon we are in the middle, or, as it is called, the Mucross, or Torc Lake.
The panorama spread out beneath the rocks of Torc comprehends, in all their glory of colour and contrast, the Middle and Lower Lakes beneath the mountains.
I do not know how many more fees are to be paid for a look about the lakes of Killarney, but this gate, Torc Cascade and Muckross Abbey cost each tourist two shillings and sixpence to look at them.
The only available sight to be seen that night wasTorc Cascade--well, I will be content with that.
You are above the tall firs, and the solemn Torc Mountain rises far above you.
There are many cascades unnamed and unnoticed in our Canadian forests as handsome as Torc Cascade.
You then find yourself inTorc (or Muckross) Lake, and opposite Dinish Island, on which is a pretty cottage, where it is usual to halt for rest and refreshment.
In one place he observes: "Torc was obscured by the sun shining immediately above him, and, casting a stream of burning light on the water, displayed an effect to describe which the pencil of a Claude alone would be equal.
The great Torc Cascade empties itself into Muckross Lake a little more than a mile from the Abbey.
From above Torc Waterfall, showing the upper and lower lakes with the peninsula which divides them.
Glena is all soft loveliness, but rugged rock and crag, and the stern grandeur of Torc Mountain on the other side, strike again that minor chord never far from Killarney's brightest scenes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torc" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
