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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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. Every pagus had its own magistrates, who kept a register of persons and property, collected the taxes, and performed other necessary acts of local administration.
- n. In early Teut. hist., a division of the people or of the territory larger than a vicus or village. In early England it seems to have been equivalent to a hundred or wapentake (a division or subdivision of a county).
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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
“The sleazy debtor had shot him—the pagus must have connections with somebody else, if he had a phaser—he was beset by treachery—”
“The pagus spoke briefly to his monarch, then gestured for the two humans to approach the throne.”
“Vexin -- literally the land dedicated to Vulcan _ (pagus Vulcanis) _”
“Me quotiens reficit gelidus Digentia rivus, quem Mandela bibit, rugosus frigore pagus.”
“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.”
“Under Marcus Aurelius it included a pagus and a civitas; Septimius Severus erected it into the municipium,”
“A pagus under Claudius I, Thugga was dependent on the”
“According to the legend he was put to death, together with a companion Nicasius, in the pagus”
“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
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