Mons, montis, m. g. A mountaine or bill: a great heape of anie thing.Acumen montis. Oui. The sharpe toppe of.Altitudo montium.Cic.Articuli montmm, Vide Articolus in ARTVS.Cacumen sublime montis.Ouid.Capita aspera montis.Virg. Iuga montiÛ. Vir. The ridges.Montium syluarumqúe clamor. Hor. Profunda montium.Tacit. Saxosi montis scopuli. Sil. Vestitus densissimi montium.Cic. Abrupti montis latus. Sene. The side of a steepe hil.Aerius mons.Virg.An high hill.Alti montes.Virg.Anhelus mons. Claud. A steepe hill making one blowe to gee vp.Ardui. Hor. Assurgentes. Colum. Auij. Hor. Cani. Virg.Caui Ouid. Continui. Hor. Deuexi. Valer. Flac. Feri. Virg.Fracti.Ouid. Gelidi. Claud. Impendentium montium altitudines.Cic.The highnesse of hilles hanging ouer them.Inaccessi. Claud. Intonsi. Virg.Lapidosi.Ouid. Magni. Virg.Nemorosi.Ouid. Nubiferi. Sil.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mons, tis (archaic abl. montei, Enn. ap. Non. 222, 33; cf. Ann. v. 420 Vahl.), m. [etym. dub., perh. from the root min, whence also, emineo, mentum, minari; cf. minae; lit. a projecting body; hence], a mountain, mount. I.Lit.: montium altitudines, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 98: altissimi, Caes. B. G. 3, 1: avii, Hor. C. 1, 23, 2: inaccessi, Plin. 6, 28, 32, 144: lapidosi, Ov. M. 1, 44.—Prov.: parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus, said where much is promised but little performed, Hor. A. P. 139.—II.Transf.A.A mountain, i. e. a (heaped-up, towering) mass, a heap, quantity: argenti montes, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 73: montes mali ardentes, id. Merc. 3, 4, 32; id. Ep. 1, 1, 78: ita mali maeroris montem maxumum conspicatus sum, id. Most. 2, 1, 6: mons in Tusculani monte, i. e.
a lofty, splendid building near Tusculum
, Cic. Pis. 21, 48: aquae, Verg. A. 1, 105: armorum, Sil. 10, 549.—Of a wagon-load of stones: eversum fudit super agmina montem, Juv. 3, 258; Stat. Th. 1, 145.—Prov.: montes auri polliceri,
to promise mountains of gold, to make great promises
, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 18; so, maria montesque polliceri, Sall. C. 23, 3: magnos montes promittere, Pers. 3, 65.—B.A mountain-rock, rock in gen. (poet.): fertur in abruptum magno mons improbus actu, Verg. A. 12, 687: Graii,
