Chapter Service Estimates of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

three on the west were Hebron, Shechem, and Kedesh. (Deut. iv. 43; Josh. xx. 1-8.)
   The Cities of the Plain. Sodom and Gomorrah.

“Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.”- Gen. xiii. 12.

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

Citizen King (The). Louis Philippe of France. So called because he was elected king by the citizens of Paris. (Born 1773, reigned 1830-1848, died 1850.)

City (A), strictly speaking is a large town with a corporation and cathedral; but any large town is so called in ordinary speech. In the Bible it means a town having walls and gates.

“The eldest son of the first man [Cain] builded a city (Gen. iv. 17)- not, of course, a Nineveh or a Babylon, but still a city.”- Rawbinson: Origin of Nations, part i. chap. i. p. 10.

City College (The). Newgate. The wit is now a thing of the past.

City of Bells (The). Strasburg.

“He was a Strasburgher, and in that city of bells had been a medical practitioner.”- Mayne Reid: The Scalp Hunters, chap. xxv.

City of David (The). Jerusalem. So called in compliment to King David. (2 Sam. v. 7, 9.)

City of Destruction (The). This world, or rather, the world of the unconverted. Bunyan makes Christian flee from the “City of Destruction” and journey to the “Celestial City,” by which he allegorises the “walk of a Christian” from conversion to death.

City of God (The). The church or whole body of believers; the kingdom of Jesus Christ, in contradistinction to the city of the World, called by John Bunyan the City of Destruction. The phrase is that of St. Augustine; one of his chief works bearing that title, or rather De Civitate Dei.

City of Lanterns (The). A supposititious city in Lucian's Veræ Historiæ, situate somewhere beyond the zodiac. (See Lantern Land .)

City of Palaces (The). Agrippa, in the reign of Augustus, converted Rome from “a city of brick huts to one of marble palaces.” (Cf. Suetonius.)    Calcutta is called the “City of Palaces.” Modern Paris well deserves the compliment of being so called.

City of Refuge (The). Medina, in Arabia, where Mahomet took refuge when driven by conspirators from Mecca. He entered the city, not as a fugitive, but in triumph, A.D. 622. (See under Cities Of Refuge , page 255.)

City of St. Michael (The). Dumfries, of which city St. Michael is the patron saint.

City of Saints Montreal, in Canada, is so named because all the streets are named after saints.

“Mr. Geo. Martin ... said he came from [Montreal] a city of saints, where all the streets were named after saints.”- Secular Thought, September 10th, 1891.

City of the Great King (The)- i.e. Jerusalem. (Psa. xlviii. 2; Matt. v. 35.)

City of the Seven Hills (The). Rome, built on seven hills (Urbs septacollis). The hills are the Aventine, Cælian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal.
   The AVENTINE HILL was given to the people. It was deemed unlucky, because here Remus was slain. It was also called “Collis Dianae,” from the Temple of Diana which stood there.
   The CAELIAN HILL was given to Caelius Vibenna, the Tuscan, who came to the help of the Romans in the Sabine war.
   The CAPITOLINE HILL or “Mons Tarpeius,” also called “Mons Saturni,” on which stood the great castle or capitol of Rome. It contained the Temple of