pĕrĕgrīnus — Lewis & Short
pĕrĕgrīnus, a, um, adj.peregre,
I that comes from foreign parts, strange, foreign, exotic (cf.: exter, externus).
I Lit.
A In gen.
1 Adj.:
ad portum mittunt servulos, ancillulas: peregrina navis, etc.,Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 65:
facies,id. Ps. 4, 2, 9:
homo,id. Poen. 5, 2, 71:
mulier,Hor. C. 3, 3, 20:
caelum,Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 25:
amnes,id. M. 8, 836:
arbores,Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 43:
aves,id. 9, 17, 29, § 63:
morbus,id. 26, 10, 64, § 100:
eluamus hodie peregrina omnia,Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 19 (668 Ritschl):
labor,i. e. of travelling, Cat. 31, 8:
amores,for foreign women, Ov. H. 9, 47:
fasti,of foreign nations, id. F. 3, 87:
divitiae,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 204:
mores,Juv. 6, 298:
terror,of a foreign enemy, Liv. 3, 16:
velut peregrinum otium alicui permittere,almost the leisure of a stranger, Tac. A. 14, 53:
peregrina sacra appellantur, quae coluntur eorum more, a quibus sunt accepta,Fest. p. 237 Müll.—
2 Subst.: pĕrĕgrīnus, i, m., a foreigner, stranger (very freq. and class.; syn.: hospes, advena, alienigena;
opp. civis): peregrinus ego sum,Plaut. As. 2, 4, 58:
peregrini atque advenae,Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 94:
peregrini et incolae officium est,id. Off. 1, 34:
peregrini reges,id. Sull. 7, 22:
ne in nostrā patriā peregrini atque advenae esse videamur,id. de Or. 1, 58, 249.—
b pĕrĕgrīna, ae, f., a foreign woman (poet.), Ter. And. 1, 1, 119; 3, 1, 11.—
B Subst., in partic., opp. to a Roman citizen, a foreign resident, an alien:
neque civem, neque peregrinum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 77: peregrinus fit is, cui aquā et igni interdictum est, Regul. tit. 11; Dig. 28, 5, 6.—
2 As adj.:
praetor,who decided causes between foreign residents, Dig. 1, 2, 2; cf. Liv. 21, 15; 45, 16:
peregrinus ager est, qui neque Romanus, neque hosticus habetur,Fest. p. 245 Müll.; cf.:
agrorum sunt genera quinque, Romanus, Gabinus, peregrinus, hosticus, incertus, etc.,Varr. L. L. 5, § 33 Müll.:
peregrini milites,Roman troops who were not Roman citizens, Inscr. Orell. 3467 sq.; their quarters in Rome were called, after them, CASTRA PEREGRINA, and were situated in the second region, by the modern S. Stefano Rotondo, ib. 9; cf.
Marin. Atti dei Frat. Arv. p. 434 sq.: provincia,Liv. 40, 44.—
II Trop., strange, raw, inexperienced (class.):
nullā in re tironem ac rudem, nec peregrinum atque hospitem in agendo esse,Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218; id. Att. 6, 3, 4.