cities
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
city · large cities · small towns
in the texts
Hymn 30 to Earth
Human settlements where Earth-favored men rule in order.
Such men rule orderly in their cities of fair women:
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Political communities founded through human speech and cooperation.
but, because there has been implanted in us the power to persuade each other and to make clear to each other whatever we desire, not only have we escaped the life of wild beasts, but we have come together and founded cities and made laws and invented arts;
Cyropaedia
Urban communities appearing as military targets, administrative units, and examples in arguments about specialization and guarded possessions.
what city that is hostile could be taken or what city that is friendly could be preserved by soldiers who are insubordinate?
for if that were so, those would be the happiest who keep guard on the city walls, for they keep guard of everything in the city.
In large cities, on the other hand, inasmuch as many people have demands to make upon each branch of industry, one trade alone, and very often even less than a whole trade, is enough to support a man: