Montana

1.

montānus, a, um, adj. [id.], of or belonging to a mountain, mountain-; full of mountains, mountainous (class.):

locus montanus an planus,

Quint. 5, 10, 37:

ager,

Varr. R. R. 1, 6:

flumen,

Verg. A. 2, 305:

cacumina, i. e. montium,

Ov. M. 1, 310:

oppida,

on a mountain, Plin. 5, 27, 28, § 100:

loca montana et aspera,

Liv. 39, 1, 5:

Ligures,

dwelling in the mountains, Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

homines asperi et montani,

Caes. B. C. 1, 57, 3:

uxor,

Juv. 6, 5:

vulgus,

id. 2, 74:

Dalmatia,

mountainous, Ov. P. 2, 2, 78.— Subst.: Montāni, ōrum, m., mountaineers, Caes. B. C. 1, 39, 2.— Mon-tāna, ōrum, n., mountainous regions:

inter montana,

Liv. 21, 34; Vulg. Deut. 1, 7; id. Luc. 1, 39.

2.

Montānus, i, m., a Roman surname.

I.

Curtius Montanus, a favorite of the emperor Tiberius, Tac. A. 16, 28 sq.; id. H. 4, 42; Ov. P. 4, 16, 11; Juv. 4, 107; 131. —

II.

Votienus Montanus, an orator of the reign of Tiberius, Tac. A. 4, 42; Sen. Contr. 4, 24, 3.—Hence, adj.: Montānĭānus, a, um, belonging to the orator Montanus, Sen. Contr. 4, 28, 17.