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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 24894453, member: 128351"]I don't think so. In Latin, peregrinus means foreigner. In the early Roman Empire there were two kinds of people, the cives Romani (Roman citizens) and the peregrini (foreigners). These "foreigners" were citizens of their home city or community, but not citizens of Rome. They were subject to their traditional laws, not to Roman law. In the New Testament you can see the difference. In the Gospels, when Jesus of Nazareth was brought before the prefect Pontius Pilatus, he found the defendant had not violated any Roman law, but being a peregrinus, he was to be brought before a Jewish court, the Sanhedrin, who found him guilty of blasphemy according to Jewish law and sentenced him to death. When later Paul of Tarsus was arrested for the same motive, he said he was a Roman citizen and appealed to the imperial court in Rome. It was the right of any Roman citizen, and the governor could not ignore this. In Rome, a praetor was a judge. The "praetor inter civis et peregrinos" had to deal with cases opposing a Roman citizen and a peregrinus, who had two different legal statuses and were not subject to the same laws.[/QUOTE]