Foenicularius Campus
τὸ Μαραθῶνος πέδιον
Foenicularius Campus (τὸ Μαραθῶνος πέδιον), a large plain in the neighbourhood of Tarraco, in Spain, so called from the quantity of fennel (μάραθρον, Dor. and Att. μάραθον, Lat. foeniculum) which grew there. The plain was traversed by the great Roman road from the Pyrenees to Tarraco. (Strab. iii. p.160; Cic. Att. 12.8)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.