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unam facit rem publicam."
Of sole (soil) and pole he makes one fatherland, [one] republic.
St. Fulbert of Chartres (d. 1029), Chorus novae Ierusalem. And another, earlier hymn? (I have not yet had a chance to do the research.) My thanks to Dr. Owen Ewald for his help with this. I go my own (and rather idiosyncratically nonsensical) way, though, in suggesting—for the sake of a rhyme in English and to preserve that sense of πόλος—"Of sole and pole," given that solum can mean not just soil, but "the sole of the foot or of a shoe" in the sense of that which stands on "the lowest part of a thing, the bottom, ground, base, foundation," and polus, more literally "the end of an axis, a pole," "the north" or "south pole" (Lewis & Short).
