I've looked in my roommate's OLD and see that "suburbium" was used with
this connotation by Cicero, though his is the only citation listed for
it. More common, but equally classical, was "suburbanus" to refer to
the area beyond a city, or to country estates.
Karen
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Karen Green Columbia University
klg19@columbia.edu Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~klg19 Department of History
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