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pagus

a district

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Where it lives

de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
De bello Gallico 11 · 2.14/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Contra Symmachum 2 · 1.66/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Res Gestae 19 · 1.49/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pāgus — Lewis & Short

pāgus, i (old

I 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. ph/gnumi, pa/gos, etc.; prop., a place with fixed boundaries; hence, a district, canton, province (opp. to the city), the country (cf. vicus): 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.—

II Transf.

A The country people: festus in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove pagus, Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: pagus agat festum, Ov. F. 1, 669.—

B Novem Pagi, a city in Belgic Gaul, now Dieuze, Amm. 16, 2, 9 (al. Decem Pagi).

In the wild

pagis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.42
pagum Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 1.13.4
pagus Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 1.12.5
pagi Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.2.8
pagis Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.5.6
pagos Tacitus, Historiae 2.65

6 of 91 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pagus (scan p. 499; entry #8093).

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