Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), N, Necropŏlis, Necropŏlis

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Necropŏlis

(from νεκρός, “dead,” and πόλις, “city”). The city of the dead; a name applied to the cemeteries in the neighbourhood of many of the ancient cities, such as Thebes in Egypt, Cyrené, Alexandria, etc.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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