Civitas

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The Romans had guaranteed to the Carthaginians the preservation of their goods and their CITY, -- intentionally using the word civitas, that is, the society, the State; the Carthaginians, on the contrary, understood them to mean the material city, urbs, and accordingly began to rebuild their walls. ❋ Unknown (1837)

Confusing economics and civitas is the cenral ignorant conceit of the new conservatism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ancient law of Rome was called their civil law, from the word civitas, which signifies a ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wordsworth's image of unfenced tigers prowling the civitas is meant to register his sense that the state should police the anger of citizens rather than encourage it. ❋ Unknown (1998)

By "commonwealth" I must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth," and most properly expresses such a society of men which "community" does not (for there may be subordinate communities in a government), and "city" much less. ❋ Unknown (1698)

By common-wealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is common-wealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in ❋ John Locke (1668)

The ancient law of Rome was called their civil law, from the word civitas, which signifies a Commonwealth: and those countries which, having been under the Roman Empire and governed by that law, retain still such part thereof as they think fit, call that part the civil law to distinguish it from the rest of their own civil laws. ❋ Unknown (1651)

It was always for those who were drawn into it what the Romans called a civitas, the word from which, much later, the far more ambiguous modern term ‘civilization’ would be derived. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)

Dengan demikian, kualitas layanan informasi universitas seperti UGM sangat tergantung penuh pada kreativitas civitas akademika. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saya mengajak para civitas akademia untuk mencoba memasarkan hasil penelitian kita, yang sebelumnya didahului dengan personal marketing and branding (marketing yourself). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Konperensi dihadiri berbagai kalangan civitas akademika universitas Essex, dibuka Professor John Packard, Direktur Human Rights Centre mewakili Universitas Essex. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Bede, an Englishman writing in Latin, might well understand 'civitas' to mean an administrative center, not a direct translation of the English word 'town' in its OE form, which I imagine is what he'd call a city in our sense. ❋ Carla (2009)

Historically, moral codes first appear during the transition from clan to polis (civitas). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The liberal value called “capitalism” is an economic system and not a basis for civitas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Surely the basis for politics revolves around the marriage of economics and civitas? ❋ Unknown (2008)

With city-identity (from the Latin civitas, what we call civilization) the needs of identity demanded more complex ritual nurturing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A school system that once Americanized millions, and introduced them to all aspects of civitas and tradition through the neighborhood high school experience has been scrapped in favor of an almost mind numbing menu of small schools whose names you can't remember. ❋ Marc Epstein (2010)

Roman Viroconium Wroxeter was the civitas capital of the Cornovii, whose territory covered roughly the area of modern Cheshire and Shropshire. ❋ Carla (2010)

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