metropolim
Dictionary entries
- Entry →metropolis, metropolis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
chief/capital city; city from which other cities have been colonized (L+S);
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...militibus concessit statimque ab oppido castra movit et Metropolim venit, sic ut nuntios expugnati oppidi famamque antecederet. Metropolitae..."Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...toto exercitu primo aduentu cepit. inde Cierium et Metropolim et iis circumiecta castella recepit; omniaque iam regionis eius..."
