urbs

Mundus numine regitur, estque quasi communis urbs et civitas hominum.

A kind of immense white tumour rose and spread on the wounded and bleeding side of the great Urbs and drained away its life.

So long ago as the eighth century it was called urbs vetus (old city) and its modern name is derived from that.

Rome that had made orbs and urbs synonymous was being conquered by the turpitudes of the quelled.

It was a combination of urbs in rure, which my experience had not prepared me to anticipate.