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*(ii) The more common [[meaning]] of classical Latin ''pāgānus'' is "civilian, non-militant" (adjective and noun). Christians called themselves ''mīlitēs'', "enrolled soldiers" of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by [[soldiers]] to all who were "not enrolled in the army".

*(ii) The more common [[meaning]] of classical Latin ''pāgānus'' is "civilian, non-militant" (adjective and noun). Christians called themselves ''mīlitēs'', "enrolled soldiers" of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by [[soldiers]] to all who were "not enrolled in the army".

*(iii) The sense "heathen" arose from an [[interpretation]] of ''paganus'' as denoting a person who was outside a particular group or [[community]], hence "not of the [[city]]" or "rural"; cf. Orosius Histories 1. Prol. "''ui alieni a civitate dei..pagani vocantur''." See C. Mohrmann, Vigiliae Christianae 6 (1952) 9ff.

*(iii) The sense "heathen" arose from an [[interpretation]] of ''paganus'' as denoting a person who was outside a particular group or [[community]], hence "not of the [[city]]" or "rural"; cf. Orosius Histories 1. Prol. "''ui alieni a civitate dei..pagani vocantur''." See C. Mohrmann, Vigiliae Christianae 6 (1952) 9ff.

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: heathen 1; especially : a follower of a [[polytheistic]] religion (as in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ancient Rome])

*1: heathen 1; especially : a follower of a [[polytheistic]] religion (as in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ancient Rome])