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  • Ergo cum recipero non posset area plana tantam multitudinem in urbe, ad auxilium altitudinis aedificiorum res ipsa coegit devenire.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Guido.] 66 Disciplinis vero liberalibus, hoc est grammatica, rhetorica, dialectica ita apuero est institutus, ut quamvis eo tempore florerent adhuc Romae studia literarum, tamen nulli in urbe ipsa secundus putaretur.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Ab urbe Roma condita, anno septingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo:

    On the 9th Day of Christmas bls 2009

  • Ab urbe Roma condita, anno septingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo:

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • The High Line marks a radical departure from the Classical model of the public park as rus in urbe — "country in city" — epitomized by London's Hyde Park and New York's Central Park, which allow one to imagine having been transported to an idyllic countryside.

    Up in the Park Filler, Martin 2009

  • Apparently, only the Holy Father may wear white in urbe.

    Archive 2009-03-15 2009

  • Rus in urbe, as the Romans used to say: a little hint of the pastoral in the heart of the town.

    Last Call, Bohemia Hitchens, Christopher 2008

  • Nací fuera de la capital y desde hace diez años estoy en la urbe (si a San José se le puede catalogar de tal forma).

    VIDEO: National Films Gain Positive Review 2008

  • Modo ruri esse, modo in urbe, saepius in agro venari,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si spiritus unde semen iis, &c. at exempla turbant nos; mulierum quotidianae confessiones de mistione omnes asserunt, et sunt in hac urbe

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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