declives
Dictionary entries
- Entry →declivis, declivis, declive:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sloping, descending, sloping downwards; shelving; tending down; falling (stars);
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.)
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...medii quoque temporis annis labitur occiduae per iter declive senectae. subruit haec aevi demoliturque prioris robora: fletque Milon..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...avia currum et modo summa petunt, modo per declive viasque praecipites spatio terrae propiore feruntur, inferiusque suis fraternos..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...recipere se iussit et loco excedere. Erat per declive receptus. Illi autem hoc acrius instabant neque regredi nostros..."