Mavors

American  

[mey-vawrs] / ˈmeɪ vɔrs /

noun

Roman Religion.

1. Mars.

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Example Sentences

Tunc � te quoties, nisi quod tu pulchrior illa, Esse suam Phoeben fulsus jurabit Apollo; Tunc � te quoties, nisi quod tu castior illa, Esse suam Venerem Mavors jurabit inanis.

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Bellorum rabies hinc abit effera, Mavors sanguineus fugit.

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I prithee, mother, with these tears, such sign of coming dread, Dog not my feet as forth I wend to Mavors' bitter play; For Turnus is not free to thrust the hour of death away.

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So now the Rutuli fall on when clear the way they find, But Quercens, and Æquicolus the lovely war-clad one, And Tmarus of the headlong soul, and Hæmon, Mavors' son, Must either turn their backs in flight, with all their men of war, Or lay adown their lovèd lives on threshold of the door.

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The Queen amidst calls on her host with timbrel fashioned due In Egypt's guise, nor looks aback the adders twain to see; Barking Anubis, shapes of God wild-wrought and diversely 'Gainst Neptune and 'gainst Venus fair, and 'gainst Minerva's weal Put forth the spear; and Mavors' wrath was fashioned forth in steel700 Amidst the fight: the Dreadful Ones stooped evil-wrought from heaven, And Discord stalked all glad at heart beneath her mantle riven; And after her, red scourge in hand, did dire Bellona go.

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