megalopolis

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Definition

From megalo- (“great”) + -polis (“city”).

Agis III., king of Sparta, refused to acknowledge Alexander’s hegemony, and after a hard struggle was defeated and slain by Antipater at Megalopolis, B.C. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian
The vast dead megalopolis that yawned around us seemed to be the last general center of the race--built early in the Cretaceous Age after a titanic earth buckling had obliterated a still vaster predecessor not far distant. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
And Lydiades was tyrant in Megalopolis, yet in the very height of his power changing his ideas and being disgusted with injustice, he restored their old constitution to the citizens,[822] and fell gloriously, fighting against the enemy in behalf of his country. — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch

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