/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · City of Palaces (The)
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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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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