Mavors
Americannoun
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Mavortius = child of Mavors, old and poetic name for Mars.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
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
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
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Tunc � te quoties, nisi quod tu pulchrior illa, Esse suam Phoeben fulsus jurabit Apollo; Tunc � te quoties, nisi quod tu castior illa, Esse suam Venerem Mavors jurabit inanis.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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