Littus ama, altum alii teneant=--Hug thou the shore, let others stand out to sea.
Footnote 13: «altum mare tenuimus», we were well out to sea.
Altum dominium, which is not dominion properly so called, is sufficient for all national emergencies, without making the State the universal landlord.
Yesterday we had in our house a clerical wedding, or altum tempus ecclesiasticum.
Moreover, there was altum silentium, and I really did not know what to do from cold, headache, and weariness.
Tolluntur in altumut lapsu graviore ruant;" and Shakspeare, "Raised up on high to be hurl'd down below.
It was he who suggested the plan of the Georgics, and the poet acknowledges his debt for a great idea in the words "Nil altum sine te meas inchoat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "altum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
