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n. A body of people constituting an organized community; city-state

"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."