Mavors
Americannoun
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Mars, or Mavors, according to his Thracian epithet.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
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
Often in lethal strife of war Mavors, or swift Triton's queen, or the Rhamnusian virgin, in person did exhort armed bodies of men.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 John Addington Symonds
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 Robinson Ellis
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