They long retained their manners and language, and caused the name of the Theofalgicus pagus to be given to the district they inhabited.
Doric dialect, so familiar to the Italians, signifies a fountain; and the rural neighborhood, which frequented the same fountain, derived the common appellation of pagus and pagans.
At the division of the empire of Charlemagne between the three sons of Louis the Debonnaire, effected by the pact of Verdun in 843, the forest had become a district and is called therein pagus Arduensis.
Perhaps however it may be needful first to explain that the Latin "pagus Constantinus" and the French Côtentin are simply the same word.
A 'pagus Chamavorum' existed in the ninth century in this district, and so bore witness to the extent and permanence of this colony of Chamavi.
These districts must have been occupied at some time by settlers from the lower Rhine, as appears from the names Pagus Attoariorum and Pagus Amauorum, the former of which lies directly between Chalon and Langres.
As the organization of the Pagus Augustus Felix did not take place till 7 B.
The Campani were not the inhabitants of Campania, but of the suburb called Pagus Campanus.
The suburb most frequently mentioned was at first called Pagus Felix Suburbanus, but after the time of Augustus, Pagus Augustus Felix Suburbanus.
The inhabitants of thePagus Campanus ask for the election of Marcus Epidius Sabinus as aedile.
In all probability it was originally the land on which a gens had settled, though settlement produces changes, and the land of gens and pagus was not identical in later times.
The pagushardly helps us here; it was not an essential advance on the family, and its religion was comprehensive, not intensive.
There were other festivals in which all the familiae of a pagus took part.
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.
This view of Pagus Hispanorum, as given in Montanus and Ogilby, represents the town founded by Menendez at a somewhat later period, if it is wholly truthful of any period.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pagus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
