urbs
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Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager — unhallowed open territory.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
Man has been moving to the suburbs ever since he invented the urbs.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as their industries, their urbs, suburbs and highways encroach upon the wilderness, that wilderness becomes particularly precious.
From Time Magazine Archive
It suggests a place where the rubes rub against the urbs, and where rhubarb is grown and sold at roadside stands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most important of the functions of the dux as judex was holding the Curtis Regia or Curtis Ducalis, in the largest city or "urbs" of every civitas.
From The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes. by William Klapp Williams
