Chapter Cipher to Civilis of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Cities of the Plain (The), Sodom and Gomorrah.—Gen. xiii. 12.

City of the Prophet, Medina, in Arabia, where Mahomet was protected when he fled from Mecca (July 16, A.D. 622).

City of the Sun (The), Balbec, called in Greek, Heliopolis (“sun-city”).

(In Campanella’s romance the “City of the Sun” is an ideal republic, constructed on the model of Plato’s republic. It is an hypothetical perfect society or theocratic communism. Sir T. More in his Utopia, and lord Bacon in his Atlantis, devised similar cities.)

City of the Tribes, Galway, in Ireland, “the residence of thirteen tribes,” which settled there in 1235.

City of the West, Glasgow, in Scotland, situate on the Clyde, the principal river on the west coast.

The Cleanest City in the World (The), Broek, in Holland, which is “painfully neat and clean.”

The Seven Cities, Thebes (in Egypt), Jerusalem, Babylon, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, and London (for commerce) or Paris (for beauty).

(In the Seven Wonders of the World, the last of the wonders is doubtful, some giving the Pharos of Egypt, and others the Palace of Cyrus; so again in the Seven Sages of Greece, the seventh is either Periander, Myson, or Epimenidês.)

City Madam (The), a comedy by Philip Massinger (1633). The City madam was the daughter of farmer Goodman Humble, and married sir John Frugal, a merchant, who became immensely wealthy, and retired from business. By a deed of gift he transferred his wealth to his brother Luke, whereby madam and her daughter were both made dependent on him. During her days of wealth the extravagance of lady Frugal was unbounded, and her dress costly beyond conception; but Luke reduced her state to that of a farmer’s daughter. Luke says to her—

You were served in plate;
Stirred not a foot without a coach, and going
To church, not for devotion, but to show
Your pomp.

The City Madam is an extraordinarily spirited picture of actual life, idealized into a semi-comic strain poetry.—Professor Spalding.

City Mouse and Country Mouse (The), a fable by Prior (1689), in ridicule of Dryden’s Hind and Panther. A city mouse invited a country mouse to supper, and set before his guest all sorts of delicacies; but, in the midst of the feast, a cat rushed in and broke up the banquet. Whereupon the country mouse exclaimed that she preferred a more frugal fare with liberty.

Civil Wars of England.

There Dutton Dutton kills; a Done doth kill a Done;
A Booth a Booth, and Leigh by Leigh is overthrown;
A Venables against a Venables doth stand;
A Troutbeck fighteth with a Troutbeck hand to hand;
There Molineux doth make a Molineux to die,
And Egerton the strength of Egerton doth try.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xxii. (1622).

(S. Daniel, in 1609, published a rhyming chronicle of these wars, in eight books.)

Civilis, the great Batavian hero, swore to leave his beard and hair uncut till he had driven out the Romans (B.C. 69).

Lumeq (count de la Marck), a descendant of “The Wild Boar of Ardennes,” swore to do the same till he had liberated his country from the Spaniards.—Motley: Dutch Republic, part iii. 4. (See Isabella.)