CAMP

(Lat. campus, plain), in mod¢ by use, applied to a temporary tented sett making ment, as opposed to bivouac; ancie of amRom. c’s (castra) were strong, permané Blast forts, usually built on an eminen removed They were laid out in a symmetrical w oi ke the Roman town, into which the until eveloped. The c. formed a great St. qguare of just over a mile, and was privee ounded by mound (agger), surmounted training y palisade (vallum); the cavity left jithout by throwing up the mound was art of the fortification, viz. the ditch 1639), fo a). The tents, separated from the for rtifications by the tinter vallum, were reform ivided into two parts by the Via cism, -rincipalis, at either end of which were tems, he principal i ues from the fort; on imprisoned ne side were the officers’ quarters, with against he Praetorium in the center, on the detained ther side the legions; from the Praetor1629; um, on the Via Principal is, the Via later -raetoria traversed the soldiers’ quarters, English 1 the midst of which it was intersected y the Via Quiniana, to the Porta town, -raetoria. springs