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SPARTA´RIUS CAMPUS(Σπαρτάριον πεδίον, Strab. 3. p. 160), a district near Carthago Nova in Hispania Tarraconensis, 100 miles long and 30 broad, which produced the peculiar kind of grass called spartum, used for making ropes, mats, &c. (Plin. Nat. 19.2. s. 8.) It is the stipa tenacissimaof Linnaeus; and the Spaniards, by whom it is called esparto,still manufacture it for the same purposes as those described by Pliny. It is a thin wiry rush, which is cut and dried like hay, and then soaked in water and plaited. It is very strong and lasting, and the manufacture still employs a large number of women and children. It was no doubt the material of which the Iberian whips mentioned by Horace ( Epod. 4.3) were composed. (See Ford, Handb. of Spain, p. 168.) From this district Carthago Nova itself obtained the surname of Spartaria.
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