CAMPUS AGRIPPAE
a section of the campus Martius laid
out as a sort of
park by Agrippa, and finished and dedicated by Augustus
in 7 B.C.
(Cass.
Dio lv. 8; Not. Reg. VII; Chron. p. 148). It was a
favourite
promenade of the Romans (
Gell. xiv. 5. 1) extending from
about the line
of the aqua Virgo on the south at least as far as the present
via S. Claudio
on the north, and from the via Lata towards the slope of
the Quirinal,
although its boundaries on the east are uncertain. The
PORTICUS
VIPSANIA was built on the west side of the campus,
along the via Lata.
The identification of this campus with the
ἄλλο
πεδίον of Strabo (v. 236)
seems inadmissible (cf. Eranos, 1923, 53, where it is
further identified
with
CAMPUS MINOR, the correlative 'maior' being the
campus Martius
proper, alluded to as circus Flaminius-the name later given
to the
ninth
Augustan region-by Catullus).