oppidanus: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>oppĭdānus</b>: a, um, adj. id.,<br /><b>I</b> of or in a [[town]] [[other]] [[than]] [[Rome]] ([[since]] [[urbanus]] signifies, of [[Rome]], from the [[capital]]); [[sometimes]] in a depreciating [[sense]], opp. to [[urbanus]], of or belonging to a [[small]] [[town]], [[provincial]] ([[class]].): [[senex]] [[quidam]] [[oppidanus]], Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 240: oppidanum et inconditum [[genus]] dicendi, id. Brut. 69, 242: [[lascivia]], Tac. A. 14, 17.—Subst.: oppĭdānus, i, m., a [[townsman]]: oppidani [[domus]], Liv. 29, 9, 2.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: oppĭdāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of a [[town]] [[other]] [[than]] [[Rome]], townsmen, townsfolk (esp. [[when]] besieged), Caes. B. G 2, 33; 7, 12; 13; 58; Liv. 36, 25.