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  • 1 aequor

        aequor oris, n    [aequus], an even surface, level: camporum aequora: campi, V.: Libyci aequoris harenae, V.—In ending a long poem: inmensum spatiis confecimus aequor, V. — Esp., the sea, ocean: Aegaeum, O.: ingens, H.: saeva aequora, V.: aequora cingentia terras, O.: vastum maris, V.: tellus et aequora ponti, V. — Poet., of the Tiber: sternere aequor aquis, smooth the surface with his waters, V.
    * * *
    level/smooth surface, plain; surface of the sea; sea, ocean

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  • 2 plānitia or plānitiēs

        plānitia or plānitiēs (not plānic-), ae, acc. am or em, f    [planus], a flat surface, level ground, plain: limosa, S.: aequata agri: inter oppidum et collem, Cs.: pars planitiae, L.: ignota, unexplored, V.

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  • 3 planitia

    plānĭtĭes, ēi (collat. form plānĭtĭa, ae, very rare; Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 43), and plur. planitiae, f. [id.], a flat or even surface, level ground, a plain (class.):

    aequata agri planities,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

    erat inter oppidum et collem planitia,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 43:

    planities erat inter sinistros montes,

    Sall. C. 59, 2; id. J. 48 fin.:

    speculi,

    Lucr. 4, 294:

    propter planitiem regionum,

    Cic. Div. 1 1: pars planitiae, Liv. 44, 6; Vitr. 7, 3:

    CLIVOM MARTIS IN PLANICIEM REDEGERVNT S. P. Q. R.,

    Inscr. Grut. 152, 6;

    a similar inscription with the form PLANITIAM,

    Inscr. Grut. 152, 7: nulla planitia dividit, Auct. B. Hisp. 28 fin.:

    planitiae coronarum,

    Vitr. 7, 3.

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  • 4 planities

    plānĭtĭes, ēi (collat. form plānĭtĭa, ae, very rare; Cic. Div. 1, 1, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 43), and plur. planitiae, f. [id.], a flat or even surface, level ground, a plain (class.):

    aequata agri planities,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

    erat inter oppidum et collem planitia,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 43:

    planities erat inter sinistros montes,

    Sall. C. 59, 2; id. J. 48 fin.:

    speculi,

    Lucr. 4, 294:

    propter planitiem regionum,

    Cic. Div. 1 1: pars planitiae, Liv. 44, 6; Vitr. 7, 3:

    CLIVOM MARTIS IN PLANICIEM REDEGERVNT S. P. Q. R.,

    Inscr. Grut. 152, 6;

    a similar inscription with the form PLANITIAM,

    Inscr. Grut. 152, 7: nulla planitia dividit, Auct. B. Hisp. 28 fin.:

    planitiae coronarum,

    Vitr. 7, 3.

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  • 5 campus

        campus ī, m    [SCAP-], a plain, field, open country, level place: campi patentes: virentes, H.: aequor campi, V.: in aequo campi, L.: campos peragrantes: redeunt iam gramina campis, H.: campi frumenti opulenti, L.: pigri, H.: planus lateque patens, O.: in campo sui facere potestatem, in the open field, N.: ut ignes in campo obstare queratur, in the open plain, H.: agros cum suis opimis campis: tantum campi, so vast a plain, V.: Aëris in campis latis, i. e. the Elysian fields, V.: campis atque Neptuno super, on land and sea, H.—Esp., a grassy plain in Rome, along the Tiber (dedicated to Mars; hence called Campus Martius), the place of assemblage for the people at the comitia centuriata, L.: quorum audaciam reieci in Campo: Descendat in Campum petitor, H.: consularibus comitiis consecratus; it was used for games, exercise, and military drills; hence, campus noster: ludere in campo, H.: uti Et ludis et post decisa negotia Campo, H.: Quantos virūm Campus aget gemitūs (at the funeral of Marcellus), V. — A level surface (of a sea, a rock, etc., poet.): campi liquentes, V.: campus aquae, O.: inmotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum), V.— Fig., a place of action, field, theatre, arena: aequitatis: magnus in re p.: campus Per quem magnus equos Auruncae flexit alumnus, i. e. the kind of composition practised by Lucilius ( satire), Iu.— The comitia held in the Campus Martius: fors domina Campi.
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    plain; level field/surface; open space for battle/games; sea; scope; campus

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  • 6 aequor

    aequor, ŏris, n. [aequus].
    I.
    In gen., an even, level surface (ante-Aug. poet.; only once in Cic. and once in Sallust): speculorum aequor, a plane surface, as of a mirror, Lucr. 4, 106; 291:

    in summo aequore saxi,

    upon the polished, smooth marble surface, id. 3, 905: camporum patentium aequora, * Cic. Div. 1, 42:

    campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781;

    and without campus: Daren ardens agit aequore toto,

    id. ib. 5, 456:

    at prius ignotum ferro quam scindimus aequor,

    id. G. 1, 50; 1, 97;

    of the desert,

    id. ib. 2, 105:

    immensum spatiis confecimus aequor,

    id. ib. 541:

    primus in aequore pulvis,

    Juv. 8, 61; and once of the heavens: aequora caeli Sensimus sonere, Att. ap. Non. 505, 8 (Trag. Rel. p. 139 Rib.).—
    II.
    Esp., the even surface of the sea in its quiet state, the calm. smooth sea (“aequor mare appellatum, quod aequatum, cum commotum vento non est,” Varr. L. L. 7, § 23 Müll.: quid tam planum videtur quam mare? ex quo etiam aequor illud poëtae vocant, Cic. Ac. Fragm. ap. Non. 65, 2 (cf. pontou plax, Pind. P. 1, 24).— Also, in gen., the sea, even when agitated by storms, Lucr. 1, 719:

    turbantibus aequora ventis,

    id. 2, 1:

    silvaeque et saeva quiērant aequora,

    Verg. A. 4, 523 et saep.:

    per undosum aequor,

    id. ib. 313:

    contracta pisces aequora sentiunt,

    Hor. C. 3, 1, 33:

    juventus Infecit aequor sanguine Punico,

    id. ib. 3, 6, 34 al.—Sometimes pleonast. with mare or pontus:

    vastum maris aequor arandum,

    Verg. A. 2, 780:

    tellus et aequora ponti,

    id. G. 1, 469.—Of the surface of the Tiber, Verg. A. 8, 89 and 96 (so, mare of the Timavus, id. ib. 1, 246;

    and unda of rivers, as of the Simoïs,

    id. ib. 1, 618).—In prose writers after the Aug. per.:

    placidum aequor,

    Tac. A. 2, 23:

    penetrare aequora,

    Val. Max. 9, 1, 1; so Curt. 4, 7; Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 76; Mel. 1, 2. Once even in Sallust: aequore et terrā, Sall. Fragm. ap. Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 13 (p. 390, n. 81 Kritz.) dub.

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  • 7 libella

    lībella, ae, f. dim. [libra].
    I.
    An as, a small silver coin, the tenth part of a denarius:

    nummi denarii decuma libella, quod libram pondo aeris valebat, et erat ex argento parva,

    Varr. L. L. 5, § 174 Müll.:

    librales, unde etiam nunc libella dicitur et dupondius, appendebantur asses,

    Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 42; Cato, R. R. 15, 1: sunt enim in sestertio libellae decem, singulae viginti, teruncii quadraginta, Volus. Maec. 66.—
    B.
    In gen.
    1.
    Prov. for a very small sum of money, as with us a farthing, groat, cent:

    una libella liber possum fieri,

    Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 8; cf. id. Capt. 5, 1, 27:

    tibi libellam argenti numquam credam,

    id. Ps. 2, 2, 34:

    quoi neque libellai spes sit usquam gentium,

    id. ib. 1, 1, 96:

    quom libella nusquamst, nisi, etc.,

    id. ib. 4, 7, 47:

    quis Volcatio unam libellam dedisset?

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 10, § 26.—Hence, ad libellam, i. q. ad assem, to a farthing, to a cent, exactly, Cic. Rosc. Com. 4, 11.—
    2.
    In inheritances: ex libella, i. q. ex asse, sole heir:

    Curius fecit palam te ex libella, me ex teruncio,

    Cic. Att. 7, 2, 3.—
    II.
    An instrument for detecting any variation from a perfectly horizontal surface, a level, water-level, plummetline:

    libella aliqua si ex parti claudicat hilum,

    Lucr. 4, 515:

    collocare et expolire aliquid ad regulam et libellam,

    Vitr. 1, 6, 6; cf. Plin. 36, 25, 63, § 188:

    structuram (parietis) ad normam et libellam fieri, et ad perpendiculum respondere oportet,

    id. 36, 22, 51, § 172:

    locus qui est ad libellam aequus,

    quite, perfectly level, Varr. R. R. 1, 6 fin.

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  • 8 marmor

    marmor, ŏris (also marmur; plur. marmura, Antonius Gripho ap. Quint. 1, 6, 23; abl. marmori, Corp. Inscr. L. 1012; m., Plin. Val. 3, 14), n. [root mar-, gleam, glimmer (v. mare), the white or gleaming stone; cf. margarita, = marmaros], marble.
    I.
    Lit.:

    in omni marmore,

    Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48:

    Parium marmor,

    Quint. 2, 19, 3; 5, 11, 30:

    tu secanda marmora Locas,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 17:

    templum de marmore ponam,

    Verg. G. 3, 13; cf.:

    vivos ducent de marmore vultus,

    id. A. 6, 848:

    parietes crusta marmoris operire totius domus,

    Plin. 36, 6, 7, § 48:

    A MARMORIBVS,

    one whose office it was to superintend the purchasing and working of marble, Inscr. Grut. 593, 7:

    marmora,

    kinds of marble, Sen. Ep. 100, 5; Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 54; 36, 16, 25, § 126; but blocks or pieces of marble, Hor. l. l.; Luc. 10, 114; Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 160; 36, 1, 1, § 2; Quint. 5, 11, 30; Mart. 5, 22, 8; v. infra.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Pulverized marble, marble-dust, Cato, R. R. 2, 3; Col. 12, 20 fin.; Plin. 14, 19, 24, § 120; 23, 1, 24, § 45.—
    B.
    A marble, i. e.,
    1.
    A piece of wrought marble, marble statue, etc.:

    Praxiteles marmore nobilitatus est Gnidiaque Venere,

    Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 127; Hor. C. 4, 8, 13; Ov. M. 5, 234; 12, 487:

    duo marmora,

    id. ib. 7, 790; cf.:

    lacrimas marmora manant,

    id. ib. 6, 312; so plur., Sen. Ep. 90, 26; Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9; 33, 7, 40, § 122; Stat. Silv. 1, 3, 36; Juv. 1, 12; 14, 40 et saep.—
    2.
    A building of marble, Mart. 8, 3, 6; 10, 63, 1.—
    3.
    In plur., a marble pavement, Mart. 10, 2, 9; 12, 60, 12; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 360; Juv. 6, 430.—
    C.
    A mile-stone of marble:

    rus marmore tertio notatum,

    i. e. three miles from town, Mart. 7, 31, 10.—
    D.
    A marble slab upon a sideboard, Juv. 3, 205.—
    E.
    A hard, stony tumor in the joints of the horse:

    plerumque in genibus aut phlegmon oritur, aut marmora,

    Veg. Vet. 2, 48, 1:

    tumor obduratione convertitur in marmor,

    id. ib. 2, 48, 10.—
    F.
    Stone in gen., Ov. M. 5, 214; 11, 404:

    flumen inducit marmora rebus,

    incrusts, id. ib. 15, 314.—
    G.
    Poet., the bright level surface of the sea; hence, the surface of the sea, the sea in gen.: verrunt extemplo placide mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 21 (Ann. v. 377 Vahl.); Lucr. 2, 767:

    lento luctantur marmore tonsae,

    Verg. A. 7, 28; id. G. 1, 254:

    Libycum,

    id. A. 7, 718:

    spumant vada marmore verso,

    id. ib. 10, 208:

    marmora pelagi,

    Cat. 63, 88:

    infidum,

    Sil. 14, 464:

    medium,

    the surface of a lake, Val. Fl. 6, 568.

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  • 9 marmur

    marmor, ŏris (also marmur; plur. marmura, Antonius Gripho ap. Quint. 1, 6, 23; abl. marmori, Corp. Inscr. L. 1012; m., Plin. Val. 3, 14), n. [root mar-, gleam, glimmer (v. mare), the white or gleaming stone; cf. margarita, = marmaros], marble.
    I.
    Lit.:

    in omni marmore,

    Cic. Div. 2, 21, 48:

    Parium marmor,

    Quint. 2, 19, 3; 5, 11, 30:

    tu secanda marmora Locas,

    Hor. C. 2, 18, 17:

    templum de marmore ponam,

    Verg. G. 3, 13; cf.:

    vivos ducent de marmore vultus,

    id. A. 6, 848:

    parietes crusta marmoris operire totius domus,

    Plin. 36, 6, 7, § 48:

    A MARMORIBVS,

    one whose office it was to superintend the purchasing and working of marble, Inscr. Grut. 593, 7:

    marmora,

    kinds of marble, Sen. Ep. 100, 5; Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 54; 36, 16, 25, § 126; but blocks or pieces of marble, Hor. l. l.; Luc. 10, 114; Plin. 24, 17, 102, § 160; 36, 1, 1, § 2; Quint. 5, 11, 30; Mart. 5, 22, 8; v. infra.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Pulverized marble, marble-dust, Cato, R. R. 2, 3; Col. 12, 20 fin.; Plin. 14, 19, 24, § 120; 23, 1, 24, § 45.—
    B.
    A marble, i. e.,
    1.
    A piece of wrought marble, marble statue, etc.:

    Praxiteles marmore nobilitatus est Gnidiaque Venere,

    Plin. 7, 38, 39, § 127; Hor. C. 4, 8, 13; Ov. M. 5, 234; 12, 487:

    duo marmora,

    id. ib. 7, 790; cf.:

    lacrimas marmora manant,

    id. ib. 6, 312; so plur., Sen. Ep. 90, 26; Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 9; 33, 7, 40, § 122; Stat. Silv. 1, 3, 36; Juv. 1, 12; 14, 40 et saep.—
    2.
    A building of marble, Mart. 8, 3, 6; 10, 63, 1.—
    3.
    In plur., a marble pavement, Mart. 10, 2, 9; 12, 60, 12; Claud. ap. Eutr. 2, 360; Juv. 6, 430.—
    C.
    A mile-stone of marble:

    rus marmore tertio notatum,

    i. e. three miles from town, Mart. 7, 31, 10.—
    D.
    A marble slab upon a sideboard, Juv. 3, 205.—
    E.
    A hard, stony tumor in the joints of the horse:

    plerumque in genibus aut phlegmon oritur, aut marmora,

    Veg. Vet. 2, 48, 1:

    tumor obduratione convertitur in marmor,

    id. ib. 2, 48, 10.—
    F.
    Stone in gen., Ov. M. 5, 214; 11, 404:

    flumen inducit marmora rebus,

    incrusts, id. ib. 15, 314.—
    G.
    Poet., the bright level surface of the sea; hence, the surface of the sea, the sea in gen.: verrunt extemplo placide mare marmore flavo, Enn. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 21 (Ann. v. 377 Vahl.); Lucr. 2, 767:

    lento luctantur marmore tonsae,

    Verg. A. 7, 28; id. G. 1, 254:

    Libycum,

    id. A. 7, 718:

    spumant vada marmore verso,

    id. ib. 10, 208:

    marmora pelagi,

    Cat. 63, 88:

    infidum,

    Sil. 14, 464:

    medium,

    the surface of a lake, Val. Fl. 6, 568.

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  • 10 aecor

    level/smooth surface, plain; surface of the sea; sea, ocean

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  • 11 ad amussim

    ămussis, is, f. [etym. unc.; perh. from am- and assis = axis, a plank, i. e. something flat, straight, moved about a surface in adjusting it] (acc. amussim, v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 198; abl. and plur. not used; only ante- and post-class.), a rule or level, used by carpenters, masons, etc.: amussis: tabula, quā utuntur ad saxa leviganda, Varr. ap. Non. p. 9, 17; Aus. Idyll. 16, 11; cf. Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 178 P.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 6 Müll. —In class. Lat. in the adv. phrases,
    I.
    ad ămussim (also written as one word, ad-ămussim or ătamussim), according to a rule or level, i. e. accurately, exactly:

    adamussim non est numerus,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 26:

    talionem ad amussim aequiparare,

    Gell. 20, 1, 34 Hertz:

    ut judicium esse factum atamussim diceres,

    id. 1, 4, 1 id.—
    II.
    exămussim, according to a rule, exactly, quite:

    Ne ista edepol, si vera haec loquitur, examussimst optuma,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 213 (with the forms adamussim and examussim, cf. the Gr. ekpodôn and empodôn).

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  • 12 amussis

    ămussis, is, f. [etym. unc.; perh. from am- and assis = axis, a plank, i. e. something flat, straight, moved about a surface in adjusting it] (acc. amussim, v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 198; abl. and plur. not used; only ante- and post-class.), a rule or level, used by carpenters, masons, etc.: amussis: tabula, quā utuntur ad saxa leviganda, Varr. ap. Non. p. 9, 17; Aus. Idyll. 16, 11; cf. Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 178 P.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 6 Müll. —In class. Lat. in the adv. phrases,
    I.
    ad ămussim (also written as one word, ad-ămussim or ătamussim), according to a rule or level, i. e. accurately, exactly:

    adamussim non est numerus,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 26:

    talionem ad amussim aequiparare,

    Gell. 20, 1, 34 Hertz:

    ut judicium esse factum atamussim diceres,

    id. 1, 4, 1 id.—
    II.
    exămussim, according to a rule, exactly, quite:

    Ne ista edepol, si vera haec loquitur, examussimst optuma,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 213 (with the forms adamussim and examussim, cf. the Gr. ekpodôn and empodôn).

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  • 13 atamussim

    ămussis, is, f. [etym. unc.; perh. from am- and assis = axis, a plank, i. e. something flat, straight, moved about a surface in adjusting it] (acc. amussim, v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 198; abl. and plur. not used; only ante- and post-class.), a rule or level, used by carpenters, masons, etc.: amussis: tabula, quā utuntur ad saxa leviganda, Varr. ap. Non. p. 9, 17; Aus. Idyll. 16, 11; cf. Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 178 P.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 6 Müll. —In class. Lat. in the adv. phrases,
    I.
    ad ămussim (also written as one word, ad-ămussim or ătamussim), according to a rule or level, i. e. accurately, exactly:

    adamussim non est numerus,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 26:

    talionem ad amussim aequiparare,

    Gell. 20, 1, 34 Hertz:

    ut judicium esse factum atamussim diceres,

    id. 1, 4, 1 id.—
    II.
    exămussim, according to a rule, exactly, quite:

    Ne ista edepol, si vera haec loquitur, examussimst optuma,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 213 (with the forms adamussim and examussim, cf. the Gr. ekpodôn and empodôn).

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  • 14 Campi Aleii

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

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  • 15 Campi Lapidei

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

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  • 16 Campi Macri

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

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  • 17 Campi Magni

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

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  • 18 Campi Veteres

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

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  • 19 Campus

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

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  • 20 campus

    1.
    campus, i, m. [cf. kêpos, Dor. kapos; perh. for scampus from skaptô, to dig, scabo; whence Campania, and perh. Capua; for the inserted m, cf. AAB-' lambanô].
    I.
    In gen.
    A.
    Lit., of any open, level land, without reference to cultivation or use, an even, flat place, a plain, field (freq. and class.; cf.: ager, planities, aequor; opp. mons, collis, silva, etc.; cf.

    Doed. Syn. III. p. 8 sq.): saxum plani raptim petit aequora campi,

    Lucr. 3, 1015; cf. id. 5, 950:

    in camporum patentium aequoribus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 93:

    aequor campi,

    Verg. A. 7, 781; Sil. 5, 376:

    aequo dare se campo,

    id. 9, 56:

    in aequo campi,

    Liv. 5, 38, 4:

    campos pedibus transire,

    Lucr. 4, 460; cf. id. 5, 493:

    campos et montes peragrantes,

    Cic. Div. 1, 42, 94; cf. id. N. D. 2, 39, 98:

    spatia frugifera atque immensa camporum,

    id. ib. 2, 64, 161; Col. 1, 2, 4; Lucr. 5, 1372:

    campus in prata et arva salictaque et arundineta digestus,

    Col. 1, 2, 3; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 18, 25; Curt. 8, 1, 4; Lucr. 5, 782; Tib. 4, 3, 1:

    virentes,

    Lucr. 1, 19:

    frequens herbis et fertilis ubere,

    Verg. G. 2, 185:

    gramineus,

    id. A. 5, 287; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6:

    pingues Asiae,

    id. Ep. 1, 3, 5: redeunt jam gramina campis, id. C. 4, 7, 1:

    herbosus,

    id. ib. 3, 18, 9:

    herbidus aquosusque,

    Liv. 9, 2, 7:

    opimus, id'. 31, 41, 7: campi frumenti ac pecoris et omnium copiā rerum opulenti,

    id. 22, 3, 3:

    pigri,

    Hor. C. 1, 22, 17 al. —

    Campus, like ager, is used in a wider or more restricted sense, as conveying a particular or more general idea: in agro publico campi duo milia jugerum immunia possidere,

    Cic. Phil. 3, 9, 22:

    agros Vaticanum et Pupinium, cum suis opimis atque uberibus campis conferendos,

    id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:

    si pinguis agros metabere campi,

    Verg. G. 2, 274 and 276; Lucr. 2, 324 sq.:

    certamina magna per campos instructa,

    id. 2, 5:

    campus terrenus,

    Liv. 33, 17, 8:

    dimicaturum puro ac patenti campo,

    id. 24, 14, 6:

    (praefecti regii) suas copias in campum Marathona deduxerunt,

    Nep. Milt. 4, 2: numquam in campo ( in the free, open field) sui fecit potestatem, id. Ages. 3, 6; so id. Hann. 5, 4; Ov. M. 10, 151; cf. id. ib. 13, 579:

    insistere Bedriacensibus campis ac vestigia recentis victoriae lustrare oculis concupivit (Vitellius),

    Tac. H. 2, 70; so,

    Bebriaci Campo spolium affectare,

    the battlefield, Juv. 2, 106:

    campum colligere,

    Veg. Mil. 3, 25.—
    2.
    Meton., the produce of the field:

    moriturque ad sibila (serpentis) campus,

    Stat. Th. 5, 528.—
    B.
    Poet. like aequor, in gen., any level surface (of the sea, a rock, etc.):

    caeruleos per campos,

    Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 15:

    campi natantes,

    Lucr. 5, 489; 6, 405; 6, 1141:

    liquentes,

    Verg. A. 6, 724; 10, 214:

    campus Liberioris aquae,

    Ov. M. 1, 41; 1, 43:

    latus aquarum,

    id. ib. 1, 315;

    11, 356: immotā attollitur undā Campus (i. e. saxum),

    Verg. A. 5, 128.—
    C.
    Trop.:

    feratur eloquentia non semitis sed campis,

    on the open field, Quint. 5, 14, 31:

    (oratio) aequo congressa campo,

    on a fair field, id. 5, 12, 92:

    velut campum nacti expositionis,

    id. 4, 2, 39.—
    II.
    Esp.
    A.
    As geog. designation.
    1.
    Campi Alēii, a plain in Lycia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63.—
    2.
    Campi Lăpĭdĕi, a stony plain near Marseilles, now La Crau, Hyg. Astr. 2, 6; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 34; 21, 10, 31, § 57.—
    3.
    Campi Ma-cri, a district in Gallia Cisalpina, on the river Macra, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 6; Liv. 41, 18, 6; 45, 12, 11.—
    4.
    Campi Magni, in Africa, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (cf. Vahl. p. 167); Liv. 30, 8, 3.—
    5.
    Campi Vĕtĕres, in Lucania, Liv. 25, 16, 25.—
    B.
    An open place in or near Rome.
    1.
    Campus Esquĭlīnus, on the Esquiline Hill, Cic. Phil. 9, 7, 17; Suet. Claud. 25.—
    2.
    Campus Flāmĭnĭus, on which stood the Circus Flaminius, Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll. —
    3.
    Campus Scĕlĕrātus, near the Colline Gate, Liv. 8, 15, 8; Fest. p. 333 Müll. —
    4.
    Far more freq. Campus, a grassy plain in Rome along the Tiber, in the ninth district, orig. belonging to the Tarquinii, after whose expulsion it was consecrated to Mars (Liv. 2, 5, 2); hence fully called Campus Martĭus, a place of assembly for the Roman people at the comitia centuriata, Cic. Cat. 1, 5, 11; id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 11; Hor. C. 3, 1, 11; Quint. 11, 1, 47 al.—Hence,
    b.
    Meton., the comitia themselves:

    curiam pro senatu, campum pro comitiis,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167:

    fors domina campi,

    id. Pis. 2, 3:

    venalis,

    Luc. 1, 180; also, much resorted to by the Romans for games, exercise, and recreation, a place for military drills, etc. (cf. campicursio and campidoctor), Cic. Off. 1, 29, 104; id. Quint. 18, 59; id. Fat. 4, 8; 15, 34; id. de Or. 2, 62, 253; 2, 71, 287; Hor. C. 1, 8, 4; 1, 9, 18; 3, 7, 26; id. S. 1, 6, 126; 2, 6, 49; id. Ep. 1, 7, 59; 1, 11, 4; id. A. P. 162.—
    III.
    Trop., a place of action, a field, a theatre, opportunity, subject for debate, etc. (cf. area) (a favorite figure of Cic.):

    me ex hoc ut ita dicam campo aequitatis ad istas verborum angustias revocas,

    Cic. Caecin. 29, 84:

    cum sit campus, in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias et in Stoicorum dumeta compellimus?

    id. Ac. 2, 35, 112; cf. id. de Or. 3, 19, 70:

    in hoc tanto tamque immenso campo cum liceat oratori vagari libere,

    id. ib. 3, 31, 124:

    magnus est in re publicā campus, multis apertus cursus ad laudem,

    id. Phil. 14, 6, 17:

    nullum vobis sors campum dedit, in quo excurrere virtus cognoscique posset,

    id. Mur. 8, 18; Plin. Pan. 31, 1: honoris et gloriae campus, id. [p. 276] ib. 70, 8:

    rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, etc.,

    Cic. Off. 1, 18, 61; Juv. 1, 19.
    2.
    campus, i, m., = kampos, a seaanimal:

    marini = hippocampi,

    Mart. 9, 43, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > campus

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