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Mavors

Mavors · m

war, battle

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 3 · 10.96/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Thebais 14 · 2.24/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Māvors — Lewis & Short

Māvors, vortis, m.from mah, magh, to cut; Gr. ma/xh, ma/xaira, 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.: 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.—

II 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.

In the wild

Mavors Lucan, Pharsalia 7.569
Mavors Vergil, Aeneid 12.179
Mavors Statius, Thebais 7.10
Mavors Statius, Thebais 9.785
Mavors Statius, Thebais 2.718
Mavors Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.280

6 of 59 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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