clivus

clīvus or clīvos ī, m

CLI-, a declivity, slope, ascent, hill, eminence : Clivos deorsum vorsum est, T.: adversus clivum, up-hill , Cs.: erigere in primos agmen clivōs, the foot-hills , L.: Viribus uteris per clivōs, H.: arduus in valles clivus, descent , O.: Capitolinus, the higher road to the Capitol, part of Sacra Via, C., Cs.; called Sacer, H.— Prov.: clivo sudamus in imo, we are but beginning , O.— A slope, pitch : mensae, O.