Mavors
Americannoun
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Mars, or Mavors, according to his Thracian epithet.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Among these may be noticed the couplet emblazoned by the banker Agostino Chigi before his palace: Olim habuit Cypris sua tempora; tempora Mavors Olim habuit; sua nunc tempora Pallas habet.
From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington
Mavortius = child of Mavors, old and poetic name for Mars.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
Mavors often amidst encounter mortal of armies, 395 Streaming Triton's queen, or maid Ramnusian awful, Stood in body before them, a fainting host to deliver.
From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson
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
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