saltus

Pyrenaeos saltus occupari iussit
he ordered the mountain-valleys of the Pyrenees to be seized

saltus , ūs, m.: a leap, bound, spring, 2.565; an ascending, 6.515. (saliō)

saltus , ūs, m.: woodland pasture, glade, forest, 4.72, et al.

saltus, ūs, m. [2. salio],

• a leaping, leap, spring, bound (class.), Sen. Ep. 15, 4: saltu uti, * Cic. Sen. 6, 19: cum alacribus saltu, cum velocibus cursu certabat, Sall. Fragm. ap. Veg. Mil. 1, 9 fin.: saltu pernici tollere corpus, Lucr. 5, 559; cf.: (monocoli) mirae pernicitatis ad saltum, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 23: corpora saltu Subiciunt in equos, Verg. A. 12, 287: saltu Emicat in currum, id. ib. 12, 326; 9, 553: saltu superare viam, id. G. 3, 141: saltum dare, to make a leap, Ov. M. 4, 551; so in plur.: dare saltus, id. ib. 2, 165; 3, 599; 3, 683; 11, 524; cf.: praeceps saltu sese In fluvium dedit, Verg. A. 9, 815: ut eadem (sc. crura ranarum) sint longis saltibus apta, Ov. M. 15, 377.—
• II Trop.: ab egestate infimā ad saltum sublati divitiarum ingentium, Amm.22, 4, 3.

saltus, ūs (gen. salti, Att. ap. Non. 486, 1), m. [etym. dub.; perh. akin to Sanscr. sar-, sal-, to go; v. Corss. Ausspr. 2, 71], a woody district, uncultivated but used for pasture, a forest-pasture, woodland-pasture, woodland (level or mountainous); freq. and class.; cf.: silva, nemus, lucus).

• I Lit.: saltus est, ubi silvae et pastiones sunt, quarum causā casae quoque. Si qua particula in eo saltu pastorum aut custodum causā aratur ea res non peremit nomen saltui, non magis quam fundi, qui est in agro culto, et ejus causā habet aedificium, si qua particula in eo habet silvam, Ael. Gall. ap. Fest. p. 302 Müll.; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, 6, 10: conductor saltūs, in quo fundus est, Dig. 19, 1, 52: in saltu habente habitationes, ib. 3, 5, 27: saltum pascuum locare, ib. 19, 2, 19: silvestribus saltibus delectantur, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 6: saltibus in vacuis pascunt, Verg. G. 3, 143: floriferis in saltibus, Lucr. 3, 11: de saltu agroque vi detruditur, Cic. Quint. 6, 28: silvis aut saltibus se eripere, Caes. B. G. 6, 43 fin.; cf.: montium domina ut fores, Silvarumque virentium Saltuumque reconditorum, Cat. 34, 11; so (with silvae) Verg. G. 3, 40; 4, 53; id. A. 4, 72; Ov. M. 2, 498; (with nemora) Verg. E. 10, 9; cf.: in silvestrem saltum, Curt. 4, 3, 21: unde tot Quinctilianus habet saltus, Juv. 7, 188; 10, 194; Hor. C. 2, 3, 17; 3, 4, 15; id. Ep. 2, 2, 178.—In the poets also as the abode of wild animals: saepire plagis saltum canibusque ciere, Lucr. 5, 1251; Verg. G. 1, 140; 2, 471; id. A. 4, 121: saltus venatibus apti, Ov. H. 5, 17; id. M. 2, 498.—
• • • 2 Esp., a narrow pass, ravine, mountain - valley: omnia vada ac saltus hujus paludis certis custodiis obtinebat, Caes. B. G. 7, 19: Pyrenaeos saltus occupari jubet, id. B. C. 1, 37, 1; cf. id. ib. 1, 37,3; 1, 38; 3, 19: saltu angusto superatis montibus, Liv. 42, 53; cf.: angustiae saltibus crebris inclusae, id. 28, 1: ante saltum Thermopylarum in septentrionem versa Epirus, id. 36, 15: premendo praesidiis angustos saltus inclusit, id. 40, 40; cf.: nemorum jam claudite saltus, Verg. E. 6, 56: saltibus degressi scrupulosis et inviis, Amm.19, 13, 1.—
    • 3 In partic., in agriculture, a portion of the public lands, consisting of four centuriae, Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 2.—
  • B Transf., = pudendum muliebre, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 41 (915); id. Curc. 1, 1, 56 (56).—*
• II Trop.: meumque erum ex hoc saltu damni salvum ut educam foras, from this forest of danger, this ticklish situation, Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 28 (993); v. Ritschl ad h. 1.

1. saltus, ūs, m. (v. salio), das Springen, Hüpfen, der Sprung, Cic. u.a.: agrestis, Ov.: fullonius, Sen.: Saliaris, Sen.: histrionicis motibus sinuati corporis saltus, Ambros.: saltu venit super ardua Pergama, hinübergesprungen, Verg.: saltu corpora ad terram mittere, auf den Boden herabspringen, Verg.: saltum u. saltus dare (tun), Ov.: crura longis saltibus apta, Ov.

2. saltus, ūs, m. (verwandt mit ἄλσος, ἄλτις), ein mit Berg u. Tal, Höhen u. Schluchten abwechselnder Landstrich, mag er ganz od. nur zum Teile mit Hochwald od. nur mit Buschwerk bewachsen sein, I) eig. u. übtr.: a) als gebirgiger-, waldiger Landstrich, das Waldgebirge, die Gebirgs-, Waldschlucht, das Waldtal, der Gebirgspaß, Pyrenaeus, Nep.: Graius, die Alpen, Nep.: Thermopylarum, Liv.: saltus Pyrenaei, Caes.: saltus duo alti angusti silvosique, Liv.: saltum munitionibus impedire (unwegsam, ungangbar machen), Liv.: in eo saltu, qui regiis tum teneretur castris, armentum pascere solitus (pastor), Liv. – v. mons u. silva unterschieden, silvis aut saltibus, Caes.: saltus silvaeque, Verg.: montes saltusque, Iustin. – sprichw., uno in saltu apros capere duos, mit einer Klappe zwei Fliegen schlagen, Plaut. Cas. 476. – b) als zur Weide benutzter Waldboden, Weideplatz, der Weidefleck, Triftfleck, die Viehtrift, s. pāscuus, ICt.: saltibus in vacuis pascant, Verg.: saltibus silvestribus delectantur, Varro. – zuw. = das Landgut, Vorwerk, das Viehtriften hat, Iuven. u. ICt.: de saltu agroque deicitur, Cic. – c) als Feldmaß, eine Abteilung des Gemeinackers von vier centuriae od. 800 iugera, Varro r. r. 1, 10 extr. – d) übtr., v. weibl. Glied, Plaut. Cas. 922 Sch.; Curc. 56: saltus virginalis, Augustin. serm. 18, 2 Mai. – II) bildl., von einer bedenklichen Sache, meum erum ex hoc saltu damni salvum ut educam foras, Plaut. Men. 988. – ➳ Archaist. Genet. salti, Acc. tr. 435: Abl. salto, Corp. inscr. Lat. 8, 14603.

1 saltus v. saltem

2 saltus [CL] 1 (act or action of) leaping or jumping, a leap or jump, (also) dancing, dance; b (fig.); c (in place-name). d (usu. transf. or in transf. context w. ref. to progress which leaps over or skips intermediate stages, in quot. usu. in adv. phr. w. in, per, or sine); e (~us libelli, v. quot.). f (mus.) leap. caput ‥ / quod regina ferox per natam fraude poposcit / scenica virgineo monstrantem ludicra saltu Aldh. VirgV 449; quidam discrimen duobus / devitantes cum saltibus / per devexa ac lubrica / clivosi ruris latera (Id.) Carm. Aldh. 1. 152; hoc piscium genus [sc. salmonum] ~um appetit ex natura Gir. TH II 41; dans David saltum manibus se tollit in altum Ad. Dore Pictor 148; 1219 per servicium unius salti [sic], et sibil’ etc. (Suff) Fees 283 (cf. ib. 593: 1236 per servicium suffli, saltus, et petti); 1313 [to W. the Saltimbanque and other of his companions making their leaps] facientibus salta ‥ [on the return of the king through the town] (KR Ac 375/8 f. 14v) C. Bullock-Davies, Menestrellorum Multitudo (Cardiff, 1978) p. 66; cum ‥ fuisset aries in medio mari fecit ~um Trevet Troades 73; c1398 per ~us, luctaciones, aliosve incautos et inordinatos ludos REED Oxford 12.  b si modo sunt humiles ‥ si modo sciunt spiritales ~us dare contemplationis Ailr. Serm. 219D; omnes ‥ mandant cancellario pro salute ut ~um faciat, ut sine mora mare transeat Devizes f. 39v.  c 1204 Johannes de ~u Capreoli Pipe 166; c1345 manerium de ~u Salmonum [Leixlip] (Ord. Scac. Dubl.) EHR XVIII 512; locum quendam qui ~us Templarii ex illo tempore nuncupatur. ‥ calcaribus urgens equum a rupe sublimi prosiliit [Templarius] ‥ in abyssum maris Latin Stories 9; quidam locus ‥ qui ~us Galteri nuncupatur ‥ ; facto de illo saltu, dum Galterum in aquis suffocatum inspiceret ‥ Ib. 47–8.  d laudabilius esse ‥ cum morosa deliberatione ‥ apte ‥ quam ‥ subito et quasi in ~u Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 595; ~um fecisti in ordinibus? feci, quia sacerdos sum et numquam diaconatum suscepi Rob. Flamb. Pen. 183; quod ‥ non exequantur sacerdotis officium ‥ qui symoniace, vel furtive, vel per ~um, vel extra legittima tempora ordines susceperint Conc. Syn. 187 (= Conc. I 658b); sacerdotes qui ordines suos legittime et sine ~u [sic] Mirk Man. f. 4v.  e transvolutis ab hoc obelo usque ad astericum foliis ‥ ad ulteriora ‥ deproperent. hic sunt enim ~us libelli, ubi saliendum occupatis et ‥ fatigatis Gir. GE I 24 p. 64.  f tertia regula est: cantare discantum per gradum tam ascendendo quam descendendo, quando tenor movetur per ~um per consonantias perfectas Hothby Contrap. Fa 102. 2 (transf., w. ref. to part of body, act or action of) twitching or quivering, pulsing, throbbing. generabitur erectio immoderata, sc. que satyriasis dicitur, a satyris diis pronis in libidinem, vel a ~u membri et saturitate Gilb. VII 285v. 2. 3 (of liquid, in quot. w. ref. to blood) moving or being propelled with some force, gushing, pulsing. b place where water gushes forth, spring. compositionis ‥ sanguinis signa sunt rubor, inflatio, calor, ~us, sive infixio, humectatio, mollicies, plenitudo venarum Gilb. IV 203. 1.  b 1375 saltus et eruptiones aque dulcis KR Ac 545/5 (v. eruptio 3); 1433 caput aqueductus predicti cum rivis ac aliis aquarum ~ibus sive fontibus ‥ ad dictum caput descendentibus Pat 434 m. 3. 4 (in computus, ~us lunae or sim.) ‘moon's leap’, increase by one of the lunar epact at a specified point in a calendrical (in a Christian context, an Easter) cycle of lunar years in order to equalize the total number of days in the cycle with that in the corresponding solar years. b (locus ~us) place in calendar where the saltus lunae occurs. ~um lunae locus et hora citior incensionis ejus per xviiij annos efficit Bede TR 12; de aetate et ~u Hwætberht Aen. 29 tit.; 797 causa hujus ‥ cartulae lunaris ~us effecta est, qui in hac lucenti luna Novembri mensis anno circuli decennovenalis novissimo ‥ inspici poterit Alcuin Ep. 126; 798 et utrum rationi vicinius sit in fine circuli decennovenalis ~um interserere vel in medio quolibet anno Ib. 145; de saltu lune vel epactis defero tractum Garl. Tri. Eccl. 89; subtraxerunt in lunacione Julii in anno xix unum diem; quia ‥ debeat esse xxx dierum, sicut ‥ invenitur in omnibus aliis annis. in anno xix non invenitur nisi xxix dierum, et ideo subtraccionem illius diei vocaverunt ~um lune Bacon VI 68; necesse erat unum diem subtrahere in quolibet cyclo a quantitate alicujus lunacionis communi ‥. et hujus diei subtraccionem vocant ~um lunae Ib. VI 137.  b viij kl. [Dec.] ‥ locus ~us secund. Roman. Kal. M. A. 432. 5 (act or action of) jumping or springing upon, attack, assault. cernens ‥ quantum foret aptus iniquis / saltibus et subitis mortibus ille locus, / impulsu subito summa de rupe ‥ / Fromundum ‥ fecit ad ima vehi Nig. SS 1066; 1199 quod nequiter et in pace domini regis et in ~u premeditato ‥ venerunt ‥ et assultaverunt eos et vulneraverunt et maimaverunt CurR I 91; 1199 nequiter et in ~u premeditato ‥ traxit sagittam, unde ‥ percussit eum per medium testiculi Ib. I 101. 6 (sexual) mounting or covering (of female): a (person); b (animal). a nervi ‥ vestri vehemencia vestri laboriosi exercicii, ~us et coitus modicum imbecilitantur Kymer 3 p. 553.  b 1322 in stipendiis ij garcionum separancium xv jumenta de eisdem [stalionibus] post ~um MinAc 1146/11 m. 11d.. 7 deer-leap (cf. saltorium). 1441 [grant ‥ that they may make certain deer-leaps] ~us sive salebras [in the enclosure of their park at Stourton ‥ without any impediment from the king's foresters] CalCh VI 14.

3 saltus [CL] 1 narrow passage through mountainous country, pass, defile (but cf. et. 2 infra, w. which quot. might also be construed). Ausoniae ‥ quam glaciales Alpium ~us [gl.: i. gelata aqua, bearewæs] praeruptis scopulorum cautibus cingunt Aldh. VirgP 25 p. 258. 2 region or area of (intermittently) wooded land (esp. that in hilly, mountainous, or otherwise wild country), grove, wood, forest (cf. et. 1 supra, 3 infra, w. which some quot. might also be construed); b (represented as part or aspect of larger nemus or silva); c (fig. or in fig. context). de ipsis montibus, speluncis, ac ~ibus, dumis consertis continue rebellabant Gildas EB 20; apis ‥ quae florentes ~uum [gl.: i. nemorum] cespites ineffabili praeda depopulans Aldh. VirgP 5; 785 (? 9c) terram ‥ et in ~u qui dicitur Andred ad porcos alendas CS 247; quos [pueros] ille ‥ maledixit, moxque de ~u duo ursi exierunt Eccl. & Synag. 104; in cujus planitie ~us silvestrium ferarum solebat esse uberrimus ‥ commodus atque speciosus R. Cold. Godr. 50; venationi ‥ trans modestiam deditus ‥ nunc ~us lustrans, nunc silvas penetrans Gir. EH I 46 p. 302; ~us est vastus et silvestris locus ubi arbores in altum exiliunt et crescunt Bart. Angl. XVII 141; edificato ‥ a Salomone templo ‥ illud consecravit, domum ~us cum domo regia mirabiliter construens [cf. III Reg. vii 2, x 21] M. Par. Maj. I 27; s1381 delitescebant miseri in foveis et antris, in sultis [sic], per fugam vel absconsionem vitam salvare cupientes Wals. HA I 466.  b c1167 in ~u nemoris Regesta Scot. 62 p. 164; predones usque ad silve condensa est persecutus. sed cum ipse redire pararet, juvene instigante temerario ‥ silve partem usque ad ~um interiorem transpenetrarunt Gir. EH II 1 p. 310.  c in tam densa totius Latinitatis silva et nemorosis sillabarum ~ibus Aldh. Met. 8; ast ille infestos dispergit dente molosos / et ‥ saltu regnabit in alto Id. VirgV 1652; facultatem accepimus ampliorem ‥ venandi, quasi ~us quosdam delicatissimos ‥ librarias R. Bury Phil. 8. 117. 3 (esp. in gl. or place-name, as equivalent of or assoc. w. ME laund(e) or leic(e)) area of open or lightly-wooded land within wood or forest, glade, wood-meadow (but cf. et. sense 2 supra, w. which some quot. might also be construed); b (in surname). in loco ‥ qui Anglice Fernlega, Latine interpretatum ~us filicis dicebatur Gir. Æthelb. 11 (cf. NLA I 417); 1257 capellano de ~u Cl 56; de castro de ~u Ib. 119; usque ad ~um quod dicitur Bradele Cart. Dieul. 338; est ‥ locus ille vallatus montibus ex utroque latere mediam habens planitiem inter duos ~us [Trevisa: by twene hiȝe landes, v. l. laundes] cum stricto introitu et angusto exitu Higd. III 376; ~us, a launde (Medulla f. 57 b/a) MED s. v. laund; lawnde of a wode, ~us (PP) Camd. Soc. XXV 291; a lawnde, ~us CathA.  b Arnaldus de ~u Cl 218.

1 saltŭs, (12) ūs, m. (salio), saut, bond : Cic. CM 19 ; Sen. Ep. 15, 4 ; Lucr. 5, 559 ; Virg. En. 12, 287 ; 12, 326 ; saltum, saltus dare Ov. M. 4, 551 ; 2, 165, faire un bond, des bonds.

2 saltŭs, (9) ūs, m. , ¶ 1 dʼaprès Æl. Gall. d. Fest. 302, région de bois et de pacages, cf. Varro L. 5, 6, 10 : silvestres saltus Varro R. 2, 3, 6, pâturages boisés ; floriferis in saltibus Lucr. 3, 11, dans les pâturages fleuris, cf. Virg. G. 3, 40 ; 4, 53, etc.; Cic. Quinct. 28 ; Curt. 4, 3, 21 ; sæpire plagis saltum Lucr. 5, 1251, entourer de filets un bocage ¶ 2 [cette même région dans la montagne] défilé, gorge, passage, pas : saltus Pyrenæi Cæs. C. 1, 37, 1, ou saltus Pyrenæus Cæs. C. 3, 19, 2, gorges des Pyrénées ; saltus Thermopylarum Liv. 36, 15, 6, défilé des Thermopyles ¶ 3 [mesure agraire contenant quatre centuries ou 800 jugères, soit auj. env. deux cents hectares] : Varro R. 1, 10, 2 ¶ 4 [fig.] a) [métaph. plais.] Pl. Cas. 922 ; Curc. 56 ; b) saltus damni Pl. Men. 988, situation épineuse.

➳ gén. arch. salti Acc. Tr. 435.

saltus , us. m. (salio.)
跳。躍。

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saltus , us. m.
樹林。大田。山。咽喉。草地。屄。— damni 太過損。Uno in saltu apros duos venari 一勞二功。Hyberni saltus 冬天牧羊之地。

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(saltus (1) ūs), m

• 2 SAL-, a leaping, leap, spring, bound.—Only acc.and ablsing. and plur: saltu uti: corpora saltu Subiciuntin equos, V.: saltum dare, make a leap, O.: praeceps saltu sese In fluvium dedit, V.: (crura) saltibus apta, O.

saltus (2) ūs, m

• a forest, woodland, untilled mountain land, forest-pasture, woodland-pasture, thicket, jungle: de saltu detruditur: quas (familias) in saltibus habent: latebris aut saltibus se eripere, Cs.: fugā silvas saltūsque peragrat, V.: in silvestrem saltum, Cu.: coëmptis saltibus, H.: saltūs venatibus apti, O.—A narrow pass, ravine, mountain-valley, glen: saltūs duo montibus circa perpetuis inter se iuncti, L.: omnia vada ac saltūs eius paludis obtinebat, Cs.: angustiae saltibus crebris inclusae, L.: ante saltum Thermopylarum, L.: nemorum iam claudite saltūs, V.