See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

PAGAN (See also:

• LAT

Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton, See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county See also:

• DISTRICT

district, See also:

• VILLAGE

village, See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune)  , a See also:

• HEATHEN

heathen, one who worships a false See also:

• GOD

god or false gods, or one who belongs to a See also:

• RACE

race or nation which practises idolatrous See also:

• RITES

rites and professes polytheism . In its See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early application paganus was applied by the See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church to those who refused to believe in the one true God, and still followed the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, See also:

• ROMAN

Roman and other See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient faiths . It thus of course excluded See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews . In the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the See also:

• CRUSADES

crusades and later, " See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan " and' " paynim " (O . Fr. paenime, See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. paganismus, heathenism or heathen lands) were particularly applied to Mahommedans, and sometimes to Jews . A See also:

• SPECIAL

special significance attaches to the word when applied to one who adopts that attitude of cultured indifference to, or negation of, the various theistic systems of See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion which was taken by so many of the educated and aristocratic classes in the ancient Hellenic and Roman See also:

• WORLD

world . It has See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long been accepted that the application of the name paganus, villager, to non-Christians was due to the fact that it was in the rural districts that the old faiths lingered . This explanation assumes that the use of paganus in this sense arose after the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity as the religion generally accepted in the See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

urban as opposed to the rural districts, and it is usually stated that an See also:

• EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor Valentinian of 368 dealing with the religio paganorum (See also:

• COD

Cod . Theod. xvi . 2) contains the first documentary use of the word in this secondary sense . It has now been shown that the use can be traced much earlier . See also:

• TERTULLIAN (c. 155-c. 222)

Tertullian (c .

202; De See also:

• CORONA (Lat. for " crown ")

corona militis, xi.), says " Apud See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

hunt (Christum) See also:

• TAM, JACOB BEN MEIR (1100-1171)

tam See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles infidelis." This gives the See also:

• CLUE

clue to the true explanation . In classical Latin paganus is frequently found in contradistinction to miles or armatus (cf. especially Tac . Hist . 53; ii . 14, 88; iii . 24, 43, 77), where the opposition is between a See also:

• REGULAR

regular enrolled soldier and the raw See also:

• HALF

half-armed rustics who sometimes formed a See also:

• RUDE, FRANCOIS (1784–1855)

rude See also:

• MILITIA (Fr. milice, Ger. Miliz, from Lat. miles, soldier, militia, military service)

militia in Roman See also:

• WARS

wars, or, more widely, between a soldier and a civilian . Thus the Christians who prided them-selves on being " soldiers of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ " (milites) could rightly See also:

• TERM

term XX . 15the non-Christians pagani . See also See also:

• GIBBON
• GIBBON, EDWARD (1737–1794)

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire (ed . See also:

• BURY
• BURY, JOHN BAGNELL (1861- )

Bury, 1896), ch. xxi. See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note ad fin .