Mavors
Americannoun
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The Phrygians called him Ma-fors or Mavors, the valiant, and by contraction Mars.
From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir
Belli fera moenera Mavors Armipotens regit, ingremium qui saepe tuum se Rejictt, aeterno devinctus vulnere amoris ............................
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de
What moaning of men shall arise from the Field of Mavors by the imperial city! what a funeral train shalt thou see, O Tiber, as thou flowest by the new-made grave!
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Mavortius = child of Mavors, old and poetic name for Mars.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
Mavors, sanguinea qui cuspide verberat urbes, Et Venus, humanas qu� laxat in otia curas, Aurati delubra tenent communia templi, Effigies non una Deis.
From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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