Campus Martius

An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used In Art and Archealogy. · 1883 · p. 8

(i. e. Field of Mars). At Rome, as in the provinces, this term had the same meaning which it bears in some countries at the present day; i. e. a ground on which soldiers went through their exercises. In ancient times, however, the Field of Mars, or simply the Field, served also as a place of a embly for the comitia. IMG:6949005855195395773_fig_127.jpg: Fig. 127. Canaba.