Field of Mars
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
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On Moral Ends
A Roman public space named as an example of a place people grow attached to through habitual visiting.
For if we are wont, by the habit of frequenting them, to grow fond of places, of shrines, of cities, of gymnasiums, of the Field of Mars, of dogs, of horses, of the sports of exercise or of hunting, how much more easily and more justly can this come about in our intercourse with men?
De Rerum Natura
The Field of Mars (Campus Martius), the named site of Roman military exercises invoked as a scene of worldly spectacle.
Thy legions swarming round the Field of Mars,