Mavors
Americannoun
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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
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
For this sense of or, the Latins had a peculiar particle, sive, which they called Subdisjunctiva, a Subdisjunctive: as, "Alexander sive Paris; Mars sive Mavors."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Mavortius = child of Mavors, old and poetic name for Mars.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
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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