valley Copy link Outline 1. vallis (valles)2. convallis (a v. inclosed on all sides)3. Tempe (a vale in Thessaly, hence used poet. for a v.), pl. n. indecl.4. sometimes angustiae (a defile)5. fauces, pl. (a narrow pass) • valley: 1. vallis (valles): Caes. B. G. 7, 47, init. 2. convallis (a v. inclosed on all sides): Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96. 3. Tempe (a vale in Thessaly, hence used poet. for a v.), pl. n. indecl.: Virg. G. 2, 469: Ov. Fast. 4, 477. 4. sometimes angustiae (a defile): Liv. 28, 1. 5. fauces, pl. (a narrow pass): id. 29, 32: joined with angustiae, Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87: v. defile, pass.
VALLEY Copy link • VALLEYvallis (general term): convallis (a deep valley surrounded with hills; the confluence, as it were, of several valleys). A large, deep valley, vallis magna, alta: entrance to a valley, angustiae, fauces vallis.