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|lshtext=<b>pāgus</b>: i (old<br /><b>I</b> 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. [[πήγνυμι]], [[πάγος]], 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> The [[country]] [[people]]: [[festus]] in pratis vacat otioso Cum bove [[pagus]], Hor. C. 3, 18, 11: [[pagus]] agat festum, Ov. F. 1, 669.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Novem Pagi, a [[city]] in Belgic [[Gaul]], [[now]] Dieuze, Amm. 16, 2, 9 (al. Decem Pagi).
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=(1) <b>pāgus</b>,¹¹ ī, m. ([[pango]]),<br /><b>1</b> bourg, village : Cic. Fin. 2, 12 ; Virg. G. 2, 383 ; Tac. Ann. 1, 56<br /><b>2</b> canton, district [en Gaule et Germanie] : Cæs. G. 1, 12, 4 ; 6, 11 ; 7, 64.
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