Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Paganica

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PAGA'NICA, sc. Pila. A particular kind of ball, stuffed with down, and covered with leather, originally used by the country people (pagani), from whom it received the name, though subsequently adopted by the more refined inhabitants of the city. It was larger and softer than the trigon, but smaller and of more consistency than the follis. Mart. xiv. 45. Id. vii. 32.