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Transalpine

adjective
1.
On or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps).  Synonym: ultramontane.  "Cracow was a transalpine university"






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"Transalpine" Quotes from Famous Books



... him in his command for five years longer; with both which requisitions they complied. Presumptuous now from his success, he added, at his own private charge, more legions to those which he had received from the republic; among the former of which was one levied in Transalpine Gaul, and called by a Gallic name, Alauda [49], which he trained and armed in the Roman fashion, and afterwards conferred on it the freedom of the city. From this period he declined no occasion of war, however unjust and dangerous; attacking, without any provocation, as well the allies of Rome ...
— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus



Words linked to "Transalpine" :   foreigner, tramontane, outsider, transmontane



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