peasant Copy link Outline 1. rustĭcus (a country-man, ignorant of town life)2. agrestis (a degree below rusticus; a peasant or boor)3. cŏlōnus (a farm-labourer)4. pāgānus (late) • peasant: 1. rustĭcus (a country-man, ignorant of town life): Cic.: Hor.: v. rustic. Also, rusticanus homo: Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 48, fin. 2. agrestis (a degree below rusticus; a peasant or boor): mostly in pl.: Cic. Mur. 29, 61. 3. cŏlōnus (a farm-labourer): Domitius had manned a fleet with slaves, freed-men, and p.s, Domitius naves servis, libertis, c. compleverat, Caes. B. C. 1, 34: cf. Hor. Od. 1, 35, 5, te pauper ambit ruris colonus, i. e. the poor p. farmer, (but the term includes farmers generally: cf. Virg. G. 1, 299). 4. pāgānus (late): v. villager. The p. class, qui in agris manuum mercede inopiam tolerant, Sall. Cat. 37.
PEASANT Copy link • PEASANTagricola, agri cultor (in respect of occupation; ☞ ruricola is poetical): rusticus (in respect of occupation or of manners; a boor): agrestis (one who lives in the country; also, in respect of manners, a rough unmannerly boor. ☞ The rusticus violates the conventional laws of behavior; the agrestis also offends against natural propriety; opposed to urbanus): rusticanus (grown up or educated in the country): paganus, vicanus (a villager; opposed to oppidanus).