place
The Alps
the Alps
also: Alpes, Alpium iuga
The mountain range walling Italy off to the north, a byword for a harsh frontier crossing.
Reading notes
- The Odes §4.4 Raetian Alps
Beneath them Drusus waged his war on the Vindelici.
- The Odes §4.14 Alps
On whose 'dread' heights the enemy citadels were set.
- The Epodes §1 the Alps
The northern mountain wall of Italy, named as a type of the hardest journey Horace would brave for Maecenas.