montanus

montānus, a, um, adj. [mons],

of or belonging to a mountain, mountain-; full of mountains, mountainous (class.): locus montanus an planus, Quint. 5, 10, 37: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 6: flumen, Verg. A. 2, 305: cacumina, i. e. montium, Ov. M. 1, 310: oppida, on a mountain , Plin. 5, 27, 28, § 100: loca montana et aspera, Liv. 39, 1, 5: Ligures, dwelling in the mountains , Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 95: homines asperi et montani, Caes. B. C. 1, 57, 3: uxor, Juv. 6, 5: vulgus, id. 2, 74: Dalmatia, mountainous , Ov. P. 2, 2, 78.—Subst.: Montāni , ōrum, m., mountaineers , Caes. B. C. 1, 39, 2.— Mon-tāna , ōrum, n ., mountainous regions : inter montana, Liv. 21, 34; Vulg. Deut. 1, 7; id. Luc. 1, 39.