Meaning of saltus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A leap, jump, bound, spring; a leaping
   declension-4, masculine
2. A forest or mountain pasture; a pass, dale, ravine, glade.
   declension-4, masculine
3. A defile, a narrow pass
   declension-4, masculine
4. A saltus, a large unit of area equal to four centuriae (approximately 500 acres or 200 hectares), used especially in reference to tracts of public land.
   declension-4, historical, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Nātūra nōn facit saltūs.”

Nature does not make leaps.

““Dēseruēre omnēs dēfessī, et corpora saltū”

“All [of my men], exhausted, had given up [the fight], and with a leap had flung [themselves] to the ground [below] or else consigned their weakened bodies to the flames.”

“Omnem Gallia, quae saltu Pyrenaeo Alpibusque et monte Cebenna…”

“All of Gaul, which is bound by the Pyrenese, Alps, and Cevennes...”

“aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant”

or as the bees, having attained their forest, and their sweet-smelling pastures, range through the flowers and the tips of the thyme

“quos agros non colebant propter silvas aut id genus, ubi pecus possit pasci, et possidebant, ab usu svo saltus nominarunt.”

Translation by Roland G. Kent The fields which they did not till on account of woods or that kind where flocks can be grazed, but still they took them for private use, they called "saltus" from the fact that their use was salvus (“saved”)

“Saltus est densitas arborum alta, vocata hoc nomine eo quod exiliat in altum et in sublime consurgat”

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