- pagus
- pāgus, i (old gen. PAGEIEI, which prob. is an error for PAGEI, Inscr. Orell. 3793), m. [root pak-, pag-, to make fast or firm, whence pango, pax, pagina; Gr. pêgnumi, pagos, etc.; prop., a place with fixed boundaries; hence], a district, canton, province (opp. to the city), the country (cf. vicus):II.
paganalia (feriae sunt eorum) qui sunt aliquoius pagi,
Varr. L. L. 6, § 24; cf. id. ib. § 26 Müll.: Lemonia tribus a pago Lemonio appellata est, Paul. ex Fest. p. 15:pagos et compita circum,
Verg. G. 2, 382:omissis pagis vicisque,
Tac. A. 1, 56:MAGISTER PAGI,
a country magistrate, Inscr. Orell. 3793 sq.:si me toto laudet vicinia pago,
Juv. 14, 154.—Of the districts, cantons, of the Gauls and Germans:in Galliā... in omnibus pagis partibusque,
Caes. B. G. 6, 11; 1, 12; 4, 1; 22; 6, 23; 7, 64; Tac. G. 39:cum Alamannorum pagos aliquos esse reputaret hostiles,
Amm. 18, 2, 1.—Transf.A.The country people:B.festus in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove pagus,
Hor. C. 3, 18, 11:pagus agat festum,
Ov. F. 1, 669.—Novem Pagi, a city in Belgic Gaul, now Dieuze, Amm. 16, 2, 9 (al. Decem Pagi).
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.