Ancient cisalpine Gaul included an area south and east of the Alps. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Mago, in cisalpine Gaul, was too far off to render aid. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
(Circum also takes the form circu, as circuit.) Cis, on this side, as cisalpine. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Inconsistencies and nonparallelisms abound: cisatlantic is in but not cisalpine; tramontane but not cismontane; poikilothermal but not homoiothermal. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2] Reference
African, perhaps, irritant certainly to cisalpine eyes, he undoubtedly attained the colouring you associate with sun-stroke, only possible under a sun in which dead things rot quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the private life of Napoleon]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
It was as the faint perfume of the spring wafted up to a prisoner in some stern fortress, as the first gentle sweetness that rose from the enchanted lakes of the cisalpine country to the nostrils of the war-hardened Goths as they descended the last snow-slopes in their southern wandering -- an anticipation that seemed already a memory, a looking forward again to something that had been already loved in a former state. From Wordnik.com. [Saracinesca] Reference
4. cisalpine. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Portraits] Reference
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