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City
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CITY, government. A town incorporated by that name. Originally, this word did not signify a town, but a portion of mankind who lived under the same government: what the Romans called civitas, and, the Greeks polis; whence the word politeia, civitas seu reipublicae status et administratio. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. 1. 1, t. 1, n. 202; Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir Municipal, pp. 36, 37.



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And before these playes weare played there was a man which did ride -- as, I take it, upon Saint Georges Daye -- throughe the cittie and there published the tyme and the matter of the playes in breeife.
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Most travellers, he says, "comming once to speake of the cittie of Venice.
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