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.
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:
And he knew that he must employ some of these to be governors and satraps of cities or of whole nations, and that he must send others on embassies—an office which he considered of the very first importance for obtaining without war whatever he might want.
what city that is hostile could be taken or what city that is friendly could be preserved by soldiers who are insubordinate?