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
- G
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..." - T
Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...toto exercitu primo aduentu cepit. inde Cierium et Metropolim et iis circumiecta castella recepit; omniaque iam regionis eius..."
