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
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..."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..."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..."