prōvincĭālis, e, adj. [provincia],
I of or belonging to a province , provincial : administratio, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 15, § 43: scientia, the administration of a province , id. ib. 1, 1, 7, § 20: edictum, belonging to a province , id. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 118: molestia, arising from the administration of a province , id. Fam. 2, 7, 4: abstinentia, observed in the administration of a province , id. Sest. 3, 7: integritas, id. ib. 5, 13: ornamenta et commoda, id. Red. in Sen. 14, 34: parsimonia, Tac. Agr. 4: bellum, id. H. 1, 89: crimina, id. A. 4, 20 fin. : aditus ad me minime provinciales, not as they usually are with provincial administrators , Cic. Att. 6, 2, 5.—
II Subst.: prōvincĭālis , is, m., an inhabitant of a province; mostly in plur., the people of a province , provincials , Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 5, § 15; Suet. Calig. 39; Dig. 50, 16, 190. —Opp. to the inhabitants of Italy: Italicus es an provincialis? Plin. Ep. 9, 23, 2; Suet. Vesp. 9; cf. as adj., Col. 3, 3, 11.