Pagus

Word PAGUS
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The pagus is the earliest Italian administrative unit of which we know anything; a territory, of which the essential feature was the boundary, not any central point within the boundary. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

The pagus spoke briefly to his monarch, then gestured for the two humans to approach the throne. ❋ W.R. THOMPSON (2000)

The sleazy debtor had shot him—the pagus must have connections with somebody else, if he had a phaser—he was beset by treachery— ❋ W.R. THOMPSON (2000)

Vexin -- literally the land dedicated to Vulcan _ (pagus Vulcanis) _ ❋ Unknown (N/A)

'Me quotiens reficit gelidus Digentia rivus, quem Mandela bibit, rugosus frigore pagus.' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)

A pagus under Claudius I, Thugga was dependent on the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It was divided into pagi, each pagus being apparently a jurisdictional limit, probably meeting in a court over which a princeps, elected by the folk moot, presided, but in which the causes were decided by a body of freemen usually numbering about a hundred. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It is derived from the Latin pagus, whence pagani (i.e. those who live in the country), a name given to the country folk who remained heathen after the cities had become Christian. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The existence of a pagus and a civitas explains why there were two bishops, Saturninus an Honoratus, who assisted at the Council of Carthage in 256. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

According to the legend he was put to death, together with a companion Nicasius, in the pagus ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Under Marcus Aurelius it included a pagus and a civitas; Septimius Severus erected it into the municipium, ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And in that street called Areopage was the temple of Mars, for they of Athens named every street of the gods that they worshipped in the same, and that street that they worshipped in the god Mars, they called Areopage, for Areo is to say Mars, and pagus is a street, and where they worshipped Pan, they named Panopage, and so of all other streets. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

Nor is it quite safe to argue back from that calendar to the life of the familia and the pagus, except in general terms. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

Virgil's lines are no less picturesque; [168] and though he does not mention the pagus, he is clearly thinking of a lustratio in which more than one familia takes part -- cuncta tibi Cererem pubes agrestis adoret. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

The religious points, if I may use the expression -- those points, that is, which are the object of special anxiety (_religio_) -- lie in the boundaries, both of the pagus as a whole, and of the arable land of the familia, in the house itself and its free inhabitants, and in the family burying-place; and to these three may no doubt be added the spring which supplied the household with water. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

This brings us practically to the end of the agricultural year as represented in the calendar; for spring sowing was exceptional, the joyful feasts of pagus and compitum are not to be found in our document, and the month of ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

The _familia_ as settled on the land, an economic unit, embodied in a _pagus_. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

Paganalia, which took place early in January; but it seems probable from line 382 that he is thinking of some festival of the pagus. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

We should naturally expect that this sacred boundary would have its holiness secured or revived by an annual _lustratio_ like that of the farm and _pagus_; and so no doubt it was. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

There were other festivals in which all the familiae of a pagus took part. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

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