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.