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urbibus

urbibus is a Latin form of urbs, meaning “city; (the City) Rome”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 208 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.32: … imperabantur; cuius modo rei nomen reperiri poterat, hoc satis esse ad cogendas pecunias videbatur. Non solum urbibus, sed paene vicis castellisque singulis cum imperio praeficiebantur. Qui horum quid acerbissime crudelissimequ …

Ovid, Amores 1.6.29: Urbibus obsessis clausae munimina portae

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.