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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• mountain:
      1. 1. mons, ntis, m. (either a single m., or a range of m.s): to be surrounded by very lofty m.s, undique altissimis m. contineri, Caes. B. G. 3, 1: an unbroken range of m.s, continui m., Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 5: or, perpetui m., Kr. (cf. Plin. 3, 5, 7, perpetua juga): et pass. Fig.: the m.s are in labour, parturiunt m., Hor. A. P. 139: to promise m.s of gold (make extravagant promises), montes auri polliceri, Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 18: Sall.
      2. 2. jŭgum (a ridge: hence in wider sense, a m. range): to reach a certain point by marching along the (ridges of the) m.s, jugis aliquo pervenire, Caes. B. C. 1, 70: esp. poet., it spreads desolation on the m.s, traxit jugis ruinam, Virg. Aen. 2, 631: more fully, juga montis, id. E. 5, 76. (N.B.--In this sense usu. pl.) See also hill, mount.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• MOUNT, MOUNTAIN
mons: jugum (mountain height): collis, clivus (collis in respect of its height, clivus in respect of elevation): of or on a mountain, montanus: full of mountains, montuosus or montosus: on this side of a mountain, cis montanus: on the other side, transmontanus: at the foot of a mountain, in or sub radicibus montis: to be inclosed by high mountains, undique altissimis montibus contineri: the top or summit of a mountain, montis vertex, culmen, or cacumen; montis jugum (the top of a chain of mountains): a chain of mountains, montes continui (poetical); continua or perpetua montium juga; juga velut serie cohaerentia; perpetuo jugo juncti colles; saltus montibus circa perpetuis inter se juncti; jugum, quod montes perpetuo dorso inter se jungit (Vid: Herzog, ad Caes., B.G., 7, 44): valley in the mountains, montium intervallum: a mountain stream or torrent, torrens monte praecipiti devolutus (Liv., 28, 6); flumine montano rapidus torrens (a rushing torrent, Verg., Aen. 2, 305). Proverbially, to remove mountains, montes sua sede moliri (Liv.): the sermon on the Mountain, *oratio a Christo de monte habita.