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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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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 11.20.3
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 1.7.20
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.35.95
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.32.85
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 1.2
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 2.4
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.145
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 94
    • Horace, Satires, 1.5.45
    • Horace, Satires, 1.5.62
    • Horace, Satires, 1.6.118
    • Vitruvius, On Architecture, 8.3
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 21.16
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 21.53
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.60
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 26, 13.15
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 45
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 52.1
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 9.61
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