Crossword-Solution: URBANUS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Illud repositius propositum non ita vulgabatur, quod Boemundi consilio, pene totam Europam in Asiaticam expeditionem moveret, ut in tanto tumultu omnium provinciarum facile obaeratis auxiliaribus, et Urbanus Romam et Boemundus Illyricum et Macedoniam pervaderent.

There had been, previously to this period, two praetors in Rome, the _Praetor Urbanus_, who adjudged cases between citizens in accordance with civil law, and the _Praetor Peregrinus_, who presided whenever a foreigner or alien was concerned, and judged according to the principles of natural law.

But the third election ratified the results of the two previous ones, and brought in Cicero with a large majority as _Praetor Urbanus_ over the heads of seven, some of them very distinguished, competitors.

Cicero [32] speaks of the _sermo urbanus_ in the time of Laelius, and observes that the ladies of that age spoke exquisitely.

But in this absorption of the world into a single citizenship, the city itself was ceasing to be a world of its own; and with the self-centred _urbs_ passed away the _urbanus sermo,_ that austere and noble language which was the finest flower of her civilisation.