Early stages of political aggregation,the hundred, the [Greek: phratria], the curia; the shire, the deme, and the pagus.

16 Veragri, a people of Gallia Lugdunensls, whose chief town was Aguanum, now St. Maurice, G. iii. 1 Verb[)i]g[)e]nus, or Urb[)i]g[)e]nus Pagus, a nation or canton of the Helvetians, inhabiting the country in the neighbourhood of Orbe Vercelli Campi, the Plains of Vercellae, famous for a victory the Romans obtained there over the Cimbri.

In 596, Childebert, in concert with his leudes, decided that in future the crime of rape should be punished with death, and that the judge of the district (pagus) in which it had been committed should kill the ravisher, and leave his body on the public road.

Tell them that paganus comes from pagus, from which the words pages, payes, paien, paese, pais (country), are derived.