The corpus record — Latin

metropolis1

metropolis1 · f

a city from which other cities have been colonized, a mother-city

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Where it lives

De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 4 · 0.57/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 4 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. mētrŏpŏlis — Lewis & Short

mētrŏpŏlis, is, f., = mhtro/polis,

I a city from which other cities have been colonized, a mother-city; also, the chief city, metropolis of a province (post-class.).

I Lit., Cod. Just. 11, 21; Cod. Th. 13, 3, 11.—

II Trop.: metropolis et arx mentis, Hier. adv. Jovin. 2, 8.

2. Mētrŏpŏlis — Lewis & Short

Mētrŏpŏlis, is, f., = *mhtro/polis,

I the proper name of several cities, e. g. in Thessaly, between Pharsalus and Gomphi, Caes. B. C. 3, 80; Liv. 32, 13, 11.—Mētrŏ-pŏlītae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Metropolis, Caes. B. C. 3, 81; cf. of others, Plin. 5, 29, 29, § 106; 5, 29, 31, § 120.

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