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Definition of Eternal city
1. Noun. Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
Geographical relationships: Lustrum, Catacomb, Circus, Pantheon, Toga Virilis, Bacchus, Augur, Auspex, Centurion, Gladiator, Pontifex, Procurator, Sibyl, Tribune, Roman, Romanic
Terms within: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Colosseum, Sistine Chapel, Seven Hills Of Rome, Lateran, Holy See, State Of The Vatican City, The Holy See
Generic synonyms: National Capital
Group relationships: Italia, Italian Republic, Italy
Member holonyms: Roman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eternal City
Literary usage of Eternal city
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The intervention of St. Leo the Great saved the eternal city from the fury of
Attila, but could not prevent the Vandals, in 456, from sacking it without ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... of his idea that ancient Rome occupied the site of a volcano, as altogether
untenable, and that his assertion as to the capítol of the eternal city—" ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... for the eternal city, he had so fascinated the Roman people that a treaty was
concluded according to which Arnold pledged Arnold of himself under oath ..."
4. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1906)
"... a dangerous rival to the eternal city, for even.in.their exile the Popes did not
... eternal city."
5. The Bookman (1903)
"The Cavalier 133 4. The Crisis 109 5. Lives of the Hunted 87 6. The eternal city
82 THE HEIGHT OF THE SEASON IN BOOKVILLE.—FROM THE CHICAGO "RECORD-HERALD. ..."
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