campester — Lewis & Short
campester (campestris, Cato ap. tris, tre, adj.id..
Prisc. p. 696 P.; Col. 3, 13, 8; 7, 2, 3; 3, 14, 1, is suspicious; v. Schneid. ad h. l.),I Of or pertaining to a level field, even, flat, level, champaign, opp. montanus and collinus; cf. Liv. 10, 2, 5; 40, 38, 2;
40, 53, 3 al.: tria genera simplicia agrorum campestre, collinum et montanum,Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 2:
campester locus,id. ib. § 6; cf.:
vineae collinae et campestres,Col. 12, 21, 1:
resina,Plin. 24, 6, 22, § 34:
acer,id. 16, 15, 26, § 67 al.:
locus,Col. 3, 13, 8:
pars,id. 1, 2, 3. situs, id. 7, 2, 3:
sationes,id. 11, 3, 21:
positio,id. 1, 2, 4:
culta,Plin. 25, 5, 18, § 39:
campestres ac demissi loci,Caes. B. G. 7, 72:
iter,id. B. C. 1, 66; Liv. 21, 32, 6:
vici,id. 40, 58, 2:
urbs,id. 23, 45, 10. oppidum, id. 27, 39, 12:
barbari,dwelling in plains, id. 39, 53, 13; cf.
Scythae, Hor C. 3, 24, 9: hostis,fighting on a plain, Liv. 22, 18, 3 al.—
B Subst.: campe-strĭa, ĭum, n., a plain, flat land, level ground, Tac. G. 43:
in campestribus,Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 118.—
II Relating to the Campus Martius.
A Of the athletic exercises held there:
ludus,Cic. Cael. 5, 11:
proelia,contests in the Campus, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 54:
exercitationes,Suet. Aug. 83; id. Ner. 10:
decursio,id. Galb. 6 fin.:
arma,used in the contests held there, Hor. A. P 379.— Hence,
2 Subst.
a campestre, is, n. (sc. velamentum), a leather apron worn about the loins, a wrestling-apron (orig. of the combatants in the Field of Mars; hence the name): campestria Latinum verbum est, sed ex eo dictum, quod juvenes, qui exercebantur in Campo, pudenda operiebant;
unde qui ita succincti sunt campestratos vulgus appellat, Aug. Civ Dei, 14, 17.—Also worn in hot weather under the toga, in place of the tunic,Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 18; Vulcat. Avid. Cass. 4 al.—
b campe-stres, ĭum, m., the deities who presided over contests, Inscr. Orell. 1358; 1794; 2101; Inscr. Don. 59, 5.—
B Pertaining to the comitia held in the Campus Martius:
quaestus,Cic. Har. Resp. 20, 42: gratia. Liv. 7, 1, 2:
res ex campestri certamine in senatum pervenit,id. 32, 7, 11:
operae,Suet. Aug. 3:
temeritas,Val. Max. 4, 1, n 14.