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urbe

urbe is a Latin form of urbs, meaning “city; (the City) Rome”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 1,381 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.7.1: Caesari cum id nuntiatum esset, eos per provinciam nostram iter facere conari, maturat ab urbe proficisci et quam maximis potest itineribus in Galliam ulteriorem contendit et ad Genavam pervenit.

Ovid, Amores 1.6.55: Urbe silent tota, vitreoque madentia rore

Seneca the Younger, Troades 493b: Vrbe in eversa perit.

All forms of urbs (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.