单词 | field of mars |
释义 | > as lemmasField of Mars Field of Mars n. (a) chiefly historical the Campus Martius, an open space just outside the city boundary at Rome used by the ancient Romans for games, athletic practice, military drills, etc.; cf. camp n.2 10; (b) (also with lower-case initial in the first element) the sphere of warfare; the battlefield. ΚΠ a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) 118 She seing her husbande buried in the felde of Mars, scratched her vysage, & tare her heer. 1593 G. Harvey New Let. Notable Contents sig. B4v What hath the brauest man, that she hath not: excepting the Lion in the field of Mars, which she hath in the field of Minerua. 1721 Daily Post 22 Sept. 1/1 Cardinal Alberoni is very shortly going to dwell in a Palace that belongs to the Benedictin Nuns, whose Monastery is in the Field of Mars. 1792 A. Swinton Trav. Norway, Denmark & Russia 336 His little son..has already bled in the field of Mars: he was wounded at the siege of Oczakow. 1869 Hist. Mag. Mar. 187/2 In 1789, when he entered the field of Mars, Napoleon held a rank..of Sub-lieutenant in the French Artillery. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 4 173 In Roman triumphs it was in the Field of Mars, before the Triumphal Gate (Porta Triumphalis) in front of the Circus Flaminius, that the welcoming scene took place. 1995 A. Halkin Enemy Reviewed 65 He simply saw the war as a great adventure affording man the supreme opportunity to prove himself on the field of Mars. 2001 M. Webb Churches & Catacombs of Early Christian Rome 143 In early Roman times it was named Campus Martius, the Field of Mars, which then included the whole area between the Capitoline, Quirinal, and the Pincian hills and the river Tiber, but which now refers to a much smaller area. < as lemmas |
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