pĕrĕger (-gris), comm. [per-ager, who has gone through lands, i. e.], who is on a journey, abroad, away from home (postclass.): si pereger factus sit, Ulp. Reg. tit. 17, 1 (dub.; Huschke, peregrinus): nedum me peregrem composita fabulari, Aus. Ep. 17: susceptor peregrum, Ven. Carm. 4, 10, 14.
Hence, adv., in two forms, peregre and (ante- and post-class.) peregri, abroad, away from home.
- A. pĕrĕgrē, answering to the question where? whence? or whither?
- 1. To the question where? qui peregre depugnavit, abroad, Cic. Phil. 5, 11, 30: dum peregre est animus sine corpore velox, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 13: habitare, Liv. 5, 52: spectacula dare, Suet. Calig. 20: esse, Vulg. Luc. 20, 9.
- 2. To the question whence? from abroad, from foreign parts: quom peregre veniet, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 21: epistolā peregre allatā, id. As. 4, 1, 16: peregre redire, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 13: in regnum Romam accitos, Liv. 2, 16: nuntiare, id. 28, 11: redire, Dig. 39, 6, 29.
With ab: a peregre, from abroad, Vitr. 5, 7.
- 3. To the question whither? abroad, to foreign parts: postquam peregre hinc ejus pater abiit, Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 41: peregre abire, Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151: proficisci, Suet. Caes. 42: rusve peregreve exire, Hor. S. 1, 6, 103: argentum ferre, Gai. Inst. 3, 196: proficisci, Vulg. Matt. 25, 14.
- 4. Like peregri (v. infra), abroad, not at home, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 30.
- B. pĕrĕgrī, abroad, away from home, to the question where? (ante- and post-class.): peregrique et domi, Plaut. Am. prol. 5; so opp. domi, id. ib. 1, 1, 196: patriam ut colatis potius quam peregri probra, Naev. ap. Charis. p. 189 P. (Com. Rel. p. 19 Rib.): peregri necandus, Prud. στεφ. 4, 89.