cisalpine

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Mago, in cisalpine Gaul, was too far off to render aid.

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  1. adjective Relating to, living on, or coming from the southern side of the Alps.

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  • Mago, in cisalpine Gaul, was too far off to render aid. —  Ancient States and Empires
  • The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • Of the French town, properly so called, in which the products of successive ages, not with-out lively touches of the present, are blended together harmoniously, with a beauty SPECIFIC -- a beauty cisalpine and northern, yet at the same time quite distinct from the massive German picturesque of Ulm, or Freiburg, or Augsburg, and of which Turner has found the ideal in certain of his studies of the rivers of France, a perfectly happy conjunction of river and town being of the essence of its physiognomy -- the town of Auxerre is perhaps the most complete realisation to be found by the actual wanderer. —  Imaginary Portraits
  • Theiner: Histoire des deux concordats de la république française et de la république cisalpine conclus en 1801 et 1813, entre Napoléon Bonaparte et le Saint-Siège.] —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
  • A drummer with a gold-mounted elk's tooth dangling from his chain ogled her, so she sat very prim of back, gazing out over flying villages that were like white-pine toys cut in the cisalpine Alps and invitingly more clipped and groomed than the straggling Indiana towns of yesterday. —  Star-Dust
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  1. Latin Cisalpīnus : cis-, cis- + alpīnus, alpine; see alpine.

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  1. = French cisalpin, from Latin Cisalpinus, from cis, on this side, + Alpes, Alps, adjective Alpinus, alpine.
 

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