Talk:Peregrinus (Roman)

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say again?

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Peregrinus was the term used during the early Roman empire, from 30 BC to 212 AD, to denote a free provincial subject of the empire who was not a Roman citizen. Peregrini constituted the vast majority of the empire's inhabitants in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Peregrini were effectively second-class citizens …

Well, no, you just said they weren't citizens. "Second-class" citizens of ancient Rome might be people who lived in towns that had civitas sine suffragio, citizenship without the right to vote. It sounds as if peregrini were people who were "free" (that is, not slaves) but who were not citizens. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:43, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]