colles
Dictionary entries
- Entry →collis, collis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hill, hillock, eminence, hill-top; mound; high ground; mountains (pl.) (poetic);
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...aduerso Phoebi radiatus ab ictudescendens totos perfudit lumine colles, 215non temere inmissus campis: stetit ordine certoinfelix acies. cornus..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tantum quantum summotus Eoocardine Parnasos gemino petit aethera colle,mons Phoebo Bromioque sacer, cui numine mixtoDelphica Thebanae referunt..."Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...profugique a gente uetustaGallorum Celtae miscentes nomen Hiberis. colle tumet modico lenique excreuit in altumpingue solum tumulo; super..."Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...postquam gemino tellus elisa profundo est, extremi colles Siculo cessere Peloro. Caesar in arma furens nullas nisi sanguine..."Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tristis Enyotranstulit Emathias acies. nunc desuper Alpisnubiferae colles atque aeriam Pyrenenabripimur. patriae sedes remeamus in urbis, 690inpiaque..."Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...Sicilia bello Carthaginiensi primo obviam Romano exercitu progreditur, colles locosque idoneos prior occupat. Milites Romani, uti res nata..."Atticus
Cornelius Nepos from LIBER DE LATINIS HISTORICIS
"...optimis rebus usus est. Nam domum habuit in colle Quirinali Tamphilianam, ab avunculo hereditate relictam; cuius amoenitas..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...corde? COLLYBISCVS Pulchre. MIL. Vide sis calleas. COLL. Quid opust verbis? callum aprugnum callere aeque non sinam..."