place
Campus Martius
the Field
also: campus, Field of Mars
The open ground by the Tiber where Romans exercised and played ball; Horace flees its games when the heat sends him to bathe.
Reading notes
- The Odes §3.7 Field of Mars
The Campus Martius, where Enipeus is admired wheeling his horse.
- The Odes §4.1 Field of Mars
Across its grass the poet pursues the elusive Ligurinus in dream.
- The Epistles §1.7 Campus
The open ground by the Tiber where Romans exercised and played ball; Horace flees its games when the heat sends him to bathe.
- The Satires §1.6 the Field
The Campus Martius, the open ground by the Tiber where Romans exercised and played ball before bathing.