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• field:

I. Agricultural:

1. ăger., gri (in gen. sense: land for cultivation): a fertile f. (or land), a. fertilis, Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13: v. land, territory. Dimin. agellus: a f. of not more than a single acre, agellus non major jugero uno, Varr. 3, 16, med.: Cic. Also agellulus: Cat.
2. arvum (arable land): the best f.s have a crumbling soil, optima putri a. solo, Virg. G. 2, 262: Cic.
3. prātum: v. meadow.

II. Military:

1. campus (a plain; suitable for an engagement): to fight a pitched battle in a clear and open f., signis collatis dimicare puro ac patenti c., Liv. 24, 14: to encounter in a fair f., aequo congredi c., Quint. 12, 9, 2. Fig.: the (open) f. of equity, Cic. Caec. 29, 84.
2. lŏcus [ad dimicandum]: Caes. B. C. 3, 73.
3. (the battle itself) ăcies, proelium, etc.: v. engagement, battle. Phr.: in the f., militiae, belli: at home and in the f., domi militiaeque, Cic.: Liv.; domi bellique, Pl. Capt. prol. 68: belli domique, Sall. Jug. 41; cf. Cic. Off. 2, 24, 85: to take the f., ad bellum proficisci, Nep. Alcib. 4, init.; after winter quarters, ex hibernis movere (sc. copias), Liv. 27, 39; (copias) ex hibernis educere, Caes. B. C. 1, 10: he insisted on taking the f. as soon as possible, nitebatur ut primo quoque tempore castra fierent, Nep. Milt. 4: to come off masters of the f., superiores, victores discedere (v. to come off, II.).

III. Scope, range:

1. campus (a wide, unoccupied space; as an arena): there is a wide f. in the commonwealth, an open course to renown, magnus est in republica c., multis apertus cursus ad laudem, Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 17: in this f. the orator may roam at large, in hoc c. licet oratori vagari libere, Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 124.
2. lŏcus: what f. are you looking for to display your valour, quem l. probandae virtutis tuae spectas? Caes. B. G. 5, 44: what f. has art in this, in hoc quid habet ars loci, Cic. de Or. 2, 2, 5.
3. ārea (an occupied space): here is a f. worthy of my genius, haec animo a. digna meo est, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 26: a f. for crime, a. scelerum, Cic. Att. 9, 18. Phr.: the f. of history is uncultivated by us, abest historia a litteris nostris, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 5: in the f. of science, philosophy, etc., in scientia, philosophia, etc., Cic.

• FIELD

A rea or surface, campus (general term).
Agricultural land, ager, or plur., agri (open field; opposed to land that is built upon or planted with trees; hence opposed to town, village, etc.): agellus (a small field): campus (field, as comparatively level, lying low, etc.; opposed to mons, collis): praediolum (if any building be attached to it): arvum (a field that is or may be sown upon): seges or segetes (the field with reference to the fruit or its produce): novalis ager, or merely novalis, novale (“ager qui intermittitur a novando novalis dicitur,” Varr.; also ground recently broken up): campus arabilis (land that may be turned into a field): solum (the soil). A field that has not been sown on before, ager ferus (Fasti), or ager silvester (opposed to ager cultus, Col. Praef., 25): an uncultivated field, ager rudis: a fertile and rich field, ager crassus, pinguis (opposed to ager jejunus); ager bene natus (opposed to ager male natus, Varr., R.R., 1, 6, 1); ager frugifer, ferax. A corn-field, arvum, or plur. arva: possessing many fields, agrosus: work or labor in the field, opus rusticum: green fields [Vid: MEADOW].
Field of battle, locus pugnae or proelii: loca pugnae (general term, the latter with reference to different portions of the whole battle-field; Vid: Caes., B.G., 2, 27): locus, quo or ubi pugnatum est (the place where the combat took place): acies (the combat itself; e.g., to be sent or despatched from the field by anybody, ex ipsa acie mitti ab aliquo, Liv., 23, 11, 7): in the field, in castris; bello: at home and in the field, domi bellique; domi belloque; domi militiaeque (seldom in any other form, and only when an emphasis is placed on belli and militiae; otherwise belli domique: militiae domique): as well at home as in the field, et domi et militiae; et domi et belli (seldom and rather poetical, militiaeque domique): either at home or in the field, vel domi vel belli: equally great at home and in the field, magnus bello nec minor pace; non praestantior in armis quam in toga: to take the field, ad bellum proficisci (of the soldiers and the general); exercitum or milites in expeditionem educere (of the general): to take the field (on leaving winter-quarters), copias extrahere ex hibernaculis (of the general); hiberna relinquere (of the soldiers): Miltiades alone insisted on taking the field as soon as possible, unus Miltiades nitebatur, ut primo quoque tempore castra fierent: to take the field against anybody, proficisci contra aliquem; arma capere or ferre adversus aliquem (PROP.); oppugnare aliquem (figuratively, to confute anybody’s opinion); in aciem (dimicationemque) venire (Cic.; i. e., to prepare for battle): to have taken the field against anybody, castra habere contra aliquem: to remain master of the field, superiorem discedere; vincere (PROP. and IMPROP.).
IMPROPR.,
Compass or space (for doing any action in), campus (e.g., to everybody the field of honor and glory is open, omnibus patet honoris et gloriae campus, Plin., Paneg., 70, 8): a field for the display of eloquence, campus, in quo oratio exsultare possit (i. e., a topic that affords scope for eloquence): he has an ample field before him for displaying his activity, latissime manat ejus industria: the field of history has not yet been cultivated by us, abest historia litteris nostris: a wide field for my exertions lies before me, patet area lata in curas meas (†).
The field of a scutcheon, *area or solum scuti. FIELD-BASIL, *clinopodium vulgare.

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