pagani

A consequent tendency, which, happily, there were many influences to resist, was for this townless population to settle down into the condition of those who, in distinction from the early Christians, came to be called pagani, or

A History of American Christianity

These half-breed "pagani" (Amme haarec 'oxloi) gave a friendly reception to the returning exiles (Bne haggola); particularly did the Samaritans show themselves anxious to make common cause with them.

Prolegomena

"pagani" or villagers were mostly still heathen, and the last to adopt the novelty of Christianity.cf. Pliny's Letter to Trajan (Ep. 96),

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The term "Pagan" (pagani, villagers) is introduced by the Christians to lessen the Gentiles.

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Sunt syluæ maximæ, quas inhabitant duo genera hominum: Moxel scilicet, qui sunt sine lege, puri pagani.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

Kitai homines pagani, habentes literam specialem, et etiam vt dicitur, veteris et noui Testamenti scripturam.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Burithabeth, cuius habitatores pagani sunt, et hos Tartari bello vicerunt.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Sunt sylu� maxim�, quas inhabitant duo genera hominum: Moxel scilicet, qui sunt sine lege, puri pagani.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Hij autem homines sunt pagani, qui pilos in barba non habent.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Dei_, II, 6: "Nec nobis nescio quos susurros paucissimorum auribus anhelatos et arcana velut religione traditos iactent (pagani), quibus vitae probitas sanctitasque discatur."

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism