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pĕrĕgrīnus , a, um, adj. peregre,
I.that comes from foreign parts, strange, foreign, exotic (cf.: exter, externus).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.
1. Adj.: “ad portum mittunt servulos, ancillulas: peregrina navis, etc.,” Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 65: “facies,” id. Ps. 4, 2, 9: “homo,” id. Poen. 5, 2, 71: “mulier,” Hor. C. 3, 3, 20: “caelum,” Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 25: “amnes,” id. M. 8, 836: “arbores,” Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 43: “aves,” id. 9, 17, 29, § 63: “morbus,” id. 26, 10, 64, § 100: “eluamus hodie peregrina omnia,” Plaut. Stich. 5, 2, 19 (668 Ritschl): “labor,” i. e. of travelling, Cat. 31, 8: “amores,” for foreign women, Ov. H. 9, 47: “fasti,” of foreign nations, id. F. 3, 87: “divitiae,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 204: “mores,” Juv. 6, 298: “terror,” of a foreign enemy, Liv. 3, 16: “velut peregrinum otium alicui permittere,” almost the leisure of a stranger, Tac. A. 14, 53: “peregrina sacra appellantur, quae coluntur eorum more, a quibus sunt accepta,” Fest. p. 237 Müll.—
2. Subst.: pĕrĕgrīnus , i, m., a foreigner, stranger (very freq. and class.; syn.: hospes, advena, alienigena; “opp. civis): peregrinus ego sum,” Plaut. As. 2, 4, 58: “peregrini atque advenae,” Cic. Agr. 2, 34, 94: “peregrini et incolae officium est,” id. Off. 1, 34: “peregrini reges,” id. Sull. 7, 22: “ne in nostrā patriā peregrini atque advenae esse videamur,” id. de Or. 1, 58, 249.—
b. pĕrĕgrīna , ae, f., a foreign woman (poet.), Ter. And. 1, 1, 119; 3, 1, 11.—
B. Subst., in partic., opp. to a Roman citizen, a foreign resident, an alien: “neque civem, neque peregrinum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 77: peregrinus fit is, cui aquā et igni interdictum est, Regul. tit. 11; Dig. 28, 5, 6.—
2. As adj.: “praetor,” who decided causes between foreign residents, Dig. 1, 2, 2; cf. Liv. 21, 15; 45, 16: “peregrinus ager est, qui neque Romanus, neque hosticus habetur,” Fest. p. 245 Müll.; cf.: “agrorum sunt genera quinque, Romanus, Gabinus, peregrinus, hosticus, incertus, etc.,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 33 Müll.: “peregrini milites,” Roman troops who were not Roman citizens, Inscr. Orell. 3467 sq.; their quarters in Rome were called, after them, CASTRA PEREGRINA, and were situated in the second region, by the modern S. Stefano Rotondo, ib. 9; cf. “Marin. Atti dei Frat. Arv. p. 434 sq.: provincia,” Liv. 40, 44.—
II. Trop., strange, raw, inexperienced (class.): “nullā in re tironem ac rudem, nec peregrinum atque hospitem in agendo esse,” Cic. de Or. 1, 50, 218; id. Att. 6, 3, 4.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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