alienigenus

ălĭēnĭgĕna, ae, m. (also, ălĭēnĭgĕ-nus, a, um, adj.; cf. Prisc. p. 677 P., and advena) [alienus-gigno], born in a foreign land; hence,

In gen., foreign, alien; and subst., a stranger, a foreigner, an alien.

Of persons (very freq. in Cic., esp. in his orations):

homo longinquus et alienigena,

Cic. Deiot. 3:

alienigenae hostes,

id. Cat. 4, 10; cf. Liv. 26, 13:

testes,

Cic. Font. 10:

dii,

id. Leg. 2, 10:

mulieres,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 1.— Subst.:

quid alienigenae de vobis loqui soleant,

Cic. Fl. 27:

si ipse alienigena summi imperii potiretur,

Nep. Eum. 7, 1; Curt. 5, 11; 6, 3; Vulg. Lev. 22, 10; ib. Luc. 17, 18.—

Of things:

vino alienigenā utere,

Gell. 2, 24; and with the adj. form: ălĭēnĭgĕnus, a, um:

pisces alienigeni,

Col. 8, 16, 9:

fetus,

id. 8, 5, 10:

semina,

id. 3, 4, 1:

ALIENIGENVM CORPVS,

Inscr. Orell. 5048:

ne alienigenae justitiae obliti videamur,

Val. Max. 6, 5, 1 ext.:

exempla,

id. 1, 5, 1 ext.:

studia,

id. 2, 1 fin.:

sanguis,

id. 6, 2, 1 ext.:

conversationis,

Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 13.—

In Lucr., produced from different materials, heterogeneous:

scire licet nobis venas et sanguen et ossa [et nervos alienigenis ex partibus esse],

Lucr. 1, 860; 1, 865; 1, 869; 1, 874; 5, 880.