saltus
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Etymology
Origin of saltus
1655–65; < New Latin, Latin: a leap. See salt 2
Example Sentences
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But as to the people about us, the hundredth part of them could not be saved: "Videas desertaque regna Pastorum, et longe saltus lateque vacantes."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de
The apparent springs "saltus vel transitus etiam longissimos," he explains by the same thought having been a component part of two or more total impressions.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Ingens saltus, remarks Bengel, with his customary brevity and graphic power.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
B. Quis tibi monstrabat saltus venatibus aptos Et tegeret catulos qua fera rupe suos?
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
Thus, for instance— 'Parthenios inter saltus non amplius erro, Non repeto Dryadum pascua laeta choris;' and so of others, where the second line is but a variation of the first.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
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