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1 Mavors
Māvors, vortis, m. [from mah, magh, to cut; Gr. machê, machaira, and vor, root of vortere; i. e. the turner of the battle], old and poetic name for Mars (q. v.), the god of war, etc.I.Prop.:II.urbs Mavortis, i. e. Rome,
Verg. A. 6, 872; 8, 630; 12, 179; Cic. N. D. 2, 26; 3, 24; Luc. 7, 569:Mavors pater,
Val. Fl. 6, 178:genitor Mavors,
Ov. F. 4, 828:Iliae Mavortisque puer,
i. e. Romulus, Hor. C. 4, 8, 23.—Transf., war, battle: civili Mavorte, Aus Idyll. 4, 65.— Hence, Māvortius, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mavors or Mars ( poet.):moenia, i. e. Rome,
Verg. A. 1, 276:tellus,
i. e. Thrace, id. G. 4, 462:conjux,
i. e. Venus, Val. Fl. 2, 208:proles,
i. e. the Thebans, Ov. M. 3, 531; cf.:seges Mavortia belli,
the armed men that sprang up where the dragon's teeth were sown, Claud. III. Cons. Hon. 135.—As subst.: Māvortius, i, m., Meleager, son of Mavors, Ov M. 8, 437; cf. Hyg. Fab. 471; but of Mars, Petr. poët. 124, v. 261; Inscr. Grut. 57, 1.— Transf., of or belonging to war, warlike, martial:Amazon,
Val. Fl. 5, 90:tela,
Stat. Ach. 1, 626:vulnera,
Grat. Cyn. 344.
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