collium
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);
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnes effuderunt. ac primo consistere signa in radicibus collium ac reuocare in ordines militem coeperant cunctantibus in aduersum..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...manus equitum ibat, productior cornu sinistro per ima collium, ut, si hostis intravisset, fronte simul et sinu exciperetur..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...incursabant. Et Britanni, qui adhuc pugnae expertes summa collium insederant et paucitatem nostrorum vacui spernebant, degredi paulatim..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...vagus ille, quum expanditur, amnis intra usurpata semper collium substiterat atque haeserat; sed supino etiam ac detinenti solo..."