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|lshtext=<b>saltus</b>: ūs (<br /><b>I</b> 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]]).<br /><b>I</b> 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. E. 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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; cf. id. ib. 1, 37 fin.; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., in [[agriculture]], a [[portion]] of the [[public]] lands, consisting of [[four]] centuriae, Varr. R. R. 1, 10, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., = pudendum muliebre, Plaut. Cas. 5, 2, 41; id. Curc. 1, 1, 56.—*<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: meumque erum ex hoc saltu damni salvum ut educam [[foras]], from this [[forest]] of [[danger]], this ticklish [[situation]], Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 28; v. Ritschl ad h. 1.<br /><b>saltus</b>: ūs, m. 2. [[salio]],<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: ab egestate infimā ad saltum sublati divitiarum ingentium, Amm. 22, 4, 3.