municipium

• There is not the least reason to think that it was a 'municipium'. —  Roman Britain in 1914
• Of the old Roman municipium (_Verulamium_) there now remains above ground little more than some large fragments of crumbling wall in the valley of the Ver, immediately S.W. from St. Albans. Passing under the old Gatehouse and crossing the bridge at the Silk Mill the visitor, instead of turning right and following the course of the Ver, should keep straight on and pass the small gate into Verulam Woods. —  Hertfordshire
• Whether regarded as a survival of the ancient Roman municipium or as an offshoot from the Lombard guild_, it was a new birth of modern times, a new organism evolved to express the functions of Italian as different from ancient Roman or medićval Lombard life. —  Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
• I attach less weight than he does to this reason Soluntum was in the main and by origin a Phoenician town, with a Greek colouring; in 307 B.C. it was refounded for the discharged soldiers of Agathocles; later still, in Roman times, it had the rank of 'municipium'; most of its ruins are generally considered to be of Roman date and small objects found in it are also mostly Roman, and its street-plan may also be Roman. —  Ancient Town-Planning
• Certainly it was a 'municipium' in Cicero's days, and a little later, in the period 40-20 B.C., it received the rank of 'colonia' and many colonists, taken (as an inscription says) from discharged soldiers of Legions VII and XXVI. —  Ancient Town-Planning

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