valles | vallis (noun F) : or (the former, Caes. B. G. 7, 47; Verg. A. 11, 522;
* The latter,Ov. M. 3, 155; 8, 334 al.; cf. Fest. s. v. convallis, p. 42 Müll.), , f. Gr. ἕλος, lowland, Ἦλις; Lat. Veliae, Velitrae, a valley, vale.
* Lit.: quod satis magna valles intercedebat,Caes. B. G. 7, 47: vicus positus in valle,id. ib. 3, 1: per supinam vallem fusi sunt,Liv. 4, 46, 5: supinā valle praecipites egistis,id. 7, 24, 5: continui montes, nisi dissocientur opacā Valle,Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 6: in reductā valle,id. C. 1, 17, 17; Verg. A. 6, 703: qui (colles) afferunt umbram vallibus,Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11: valles cavae,Verg. G. 2, 391: saxosas inter decurrunt flumina valles,id. E. 5, 84: est curvo anfractu valles,id. A. 11, 522: rivos de pronā praeceps est valle volutus,Cat. 68, 59: domus est imis in vallibus,Ov. M. 2, 761: sub opacā valle,id. ib. 11, 277; cf.: (eloquentia) ut latissimi amnes totis vallibus fluat, Quint. 5, 14, 31.
* Trop.: vallis plorationis,Aug. Conf. 9, 2: lacrimarum,Vulg. Psa. 83, 7.
* Poet., transf., a hollow: valle sub alarum,Cat. 69, 6: femorum,Aus. Epigr. 128, 5.