A great part of the day was spent at morning receptions, in the Forum, the Campus MarTIUS, the barber's or bookseller's shops, or in the colonnades where crowds of fashionable idlers gathered to relieve the tedium of life by gossip and repartee.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
He treats as lightly the amours of Olympus as the intrigues of the Campus MarTIUS and the Circus.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
We see him at a mild game of tennis in the broad grounds of the Campus MarTIUS.
"Horace and His Influence"
Grant Showerman