place
Campus Esquilinus
the Esquiline field
also: Esquiline field, campo Esquilino, campus Esquilinus
The open ground on the Esquiline outside Rome, a traditional burial area, where Cicero's decree proposes to grant Servius Sulpicius a public tomb. Named in the Ninth Philippic.
Reading notes
- Ninth Philippic §17 a site for a tomb in the Esquiline field
The Campus Esquilinus outside the city walls was a traditional burial ground; the decree grants Sulpicius and his descendants a thirty-foot plot there under the best public title.