Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a fortified place or village in a rural district, within which the population of the surrounding territory took refuge in the event of any threatened attack.
- noun In early Teut. hist., a division of the people or of the territory larger than a vicus or village.
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Examples
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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.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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The sleazy debtor had shot him—the pagus must have connections with somebody else, if he had a phaser—he was beset by treachery—
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
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The pagus spoke briefly to his monarch, then gestured for the two humans to approach the throne.
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
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Vexin -- literally the land dedicated to Vulcan _ (pagus Vulcanis) _
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'Me quotiens reficit gelidus Digentia rivus, quem Mandela bibit, rugosus frigore pagus.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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A pagus under Claudius I, Thugga was dependent on the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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According to the legend he was put to death, together with a companion Nicasius, in the pagus
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Under Marcus Aurelius it included a pagus and a civitas; Septimius Severus erected it into the municipium,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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