Campania

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Campānĭa, ae, f., = Καμπανία [campus, i. e. the plain, the level country],

I the very fruitful and luxurious ( Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 95) province of Campania , in Middle Italy , whose chief city was Capua , now Terra di Lavoro , Mel. 2, 4, 2 and 9; Liv. 2, 52, 1; Tib. 1, 9, 33; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 60; Flor. 1, 16, 3.—

II Derivv.

A Campānus , a, um, adj., Campanian , of Campania : ager, Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 20; 2, 32, 87; Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 3: rus, Mart. 9, 61, 4: colonia, Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 85: matres, Liv. 26, 13, 15: merum, Mart. 1, 19, 6: Lyaeus, i. e. wine , id. 1, 13, 118: rosae, Plin. 21, 4, 10, § 16; cf. Mart. 9, 61: aes, Plin. 34, 8, 20, § 95: supellex, i. e. earthen , Hor. S. 1, 6, 118: trulla, id. ib. 2, 3, 144: luxuria, Liv. 23, 45, 2: morbus, a kind of wart or tumor endemic in Campania , Hor. S. 1, 5, 62 (v. Schol. Crucq.): Campanus pons, near Capua , leading over the Savo to Sinuessa, Hor. S. 1, 5, 45; Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 62: urbs, i. e. Capua , Verg. A. 10, 145: Via, a branch of the Via Appia, Suet. Aug. 94; Vitr. 8, 3; Inscr. Grut. 374, 5; 611, 13 al.—Subst.

1 campāna , ae f., a , stilyard , Isid. Orig. 16, 25, 6; Gloss. Vat. ap. Auct. Class. 7, p. 581 Mai.—

2 Plur. : Campāni , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Campania , the Campanians , Cic. Agr. 1, 7, 20; 2, 35, 94 and 96 al.—

B Campā-nĭcus , a, um, adj., Campanian : aratra, Cato R. R. 135, 2: fiscinae, id. ib. and 153: serta, id. 107, 1 ( Plin. 21, 9, 29, § 53: sertula Campana): peristromata, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 13. —*

C Campānĭus , a, um, adj., Campanian : terra = Campania, Tib. 1, 9, 33 (cf.: terra Arabia, Celtiberia, etc.).—*

D Campans , antis, adj., of Compania : genus, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 144 Brix ad loc. (also ap. Non. p. 486, 24).

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