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
- T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnes effuderunt. ac primo consistere signa in radicibus collium ac reuocare in ordines militem coeperant cunctantibus in aduersum..." - P
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..." - P
Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...incursabant. Et Britanni, qui adhuc pugnae expertes summa collium insederant et paucitatem nostrorum vacui spernebant, degredi paulatim..." - G
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..."