DESCENT Copy link • DESCENTAct of descending, descensio (post- Augustan, e.g., balinearum, into the bath, Plin.): descensus, us (Sall., ; not Cic., or Caes.): casus; lapsus (fall). Declivity, declivitas; acclivitas; proclivitas (sloping positions): locus declivis; acclivis; proclivis (*sloping place, whether ascending or descending, since, wherever there is an ascent, there must also be a descent): descensus (way leading downwards; Sall., Hirtius): a very easy descent, facillimi descensus (Hirt.): a hill, that has a gentle descent, or ascent, collis leniter editus: a city built on the descent or ascent of a hill, urbs applicata colli. Hostile attack, irruptio; incursio; incursus: to make a descent upon, irruptionem, or incursionem facere in, etc. Extraction, origo; genus; stirps: of noble descent, nobili genere natus: of no mean descent, haud obscuro loco natus: of low descent, ignobili, humili, obscuro loco natus; obscuris ortus majoribus: to trace one’s descent from anybody, originem trahere ab aliquo; originem ducere a or ex aliquo; ad aliquem originem sui referre (in speaking of a remote descent).