Campus Martius

(kūm/pŭs-marshe-us.) [L., the field of Mars.] (Rom. Hist.) An extensive field or meadow along the banks of the Tiber, where the youth of ancient Rome were trained to warlike exercises. It was so called on account of a temple that stood on it, consecrated to the god Mars. The C. M. constitutes the principal part of the modern city of Rome. Cam'-wood. [A probable contraction of Campeachy wood.] (Com.) A material from which a brilliant red color is obtained for the use of dyers. It is the product ofa leguminous tree growing in India, the Baphia rat ida of botanists. [s. 134]