Rupes, pis, f. g. Cæs. An hill, rocke, or bancke so stiepe that one may not wel clime it.Abrupta. Lucan. Horrida. Val. Flac.Acuta rupes. Sen. Maxima rupes. Hor. Aerea.Virg. Nubifera. Val. Flac.Alta.Virg. Pinifera. Lucan. Ardua.Ouid. Præcelsa. Virg.Aspera. Sen. Saxea. Stat.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rūpes, is (collat. form rūpa, ae, App. M. 6, p. 72 Hildebr. min.; cf. Gloss. Isid. p. 693),f. [rumpo], a rock: ex magnis rupibus nactus planitiem, Caes. B. C. 1, 70: cum (oppidum) ex omnibus in circuitu partibus altissimas rupes despectusque haberet, id. B. G. 2, 29; cf. Liv. 32, 4; and with this cf.: inter saxa rupesque, id. 21, 40: ex rupe Tarpeiā, id. 7, 10: Parnasia, Verg. E. 6, 29: aëria, id. G. 4, 508: ardua, Ov. F. 5, 293; id. P. 1, 8, 51: cavae,
caverns
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grottos
, Verg. G. 3, 253; so, ima (Sibyllae), id. A. 3, 443.—Of a cliff, Verg. A. 10, 693; Luc. 5, 514; Val. Fl. 3, 108; 4, 637; cf.: personantibus et respondentibus inter se rupibus, Just. 24, 6, 8.
