mōns montis, m 2 MAN-, a mountain, mount, range of mountains: altitudine montium defendi: altissimi, Cs.: praeceps, S.: summus, mountain-top, Cs.: radices montis, foot, Cs.: iniquus, steep, O.

—Prov.: Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus, great cry and little wool, H.

—A mountain, mass, heap: aquarum, V.: Fertur in abruptum mons, mass of rock, V.: mons in Tusculani monte, i. e. a lofty, splendid building near Tusculum: scrobibus concedere montīs, hillocks, V.: eversum fudit super agmina montem, load of stones, Iu.

—Prov.: montīs auri polliceri, i. e. extravagant promises, T.: maria montīsque polliceri, S.