Mars

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §pr Mars

  Roman god of war; Rome claims him as father of its founder Romulus.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §5 Mars

  Roman god of war and reputed father of Romulus; the Tarquins' field was consecrated to him.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §45 Gradivus Mars

  Mars under his cult-title Gradivus ('the Strider' or 'he who marches'), invoked in the soldiers' battle-oath.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §61 Mars

  Roman god of war and reputed father of Romulus, invoked as a guardian of the city.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §12 accusing Mars

  God of war, in whose lot Sergius vainly laid the blame of the defeat; one of Rome's chief deities.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §5 the temple of Mars

  God of war; his temple, vowed in the Gallic war, was dedicated this year by a duumvir for sacred rites.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §23 the temple of Mars

  The temple of Mars outside the Capene gate, the army's mustering-point.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §9 father Mars

  The war-god, addressed as 'father Mars' in the devotio.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §31 Mars

  The Roman war-god, called to witness by the consul in the wooded ambush.

• The History of Rome, Book 10 §27 wolf of Mars

  Mars, god of war and father of Romulus; the wolf passing to the Romans was his favorable sign.

• The History of Rome, Book 21 §1 Mars

  The Roman god of war, here used by metonymy for the fortune of battle.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §1 Mars

  The Roman god of war (archaic 'Mavors'), whose statue on the Appian Way sweated as a prodigy.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §10 the spear of Mars at Praeneste

  Roman god of war, whose spear at Praeneste was said to have moved of its own accord.

• The History of Rome, Book 28 §21 Mars

  Mars, god of war, invoked by the dueling Spanish cousins as their only judge.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §8 the temple of Mars

  The Roman war-god; here the wasps settling in his temple are reported as a prodigy.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §13 men of Mars

  Mars, the Roman god of war; the consul hails his soldiers as his sons.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §19 temple of Mars

  The temple of Mars outside the Porta Capena on the Appian Way.

• The History of Rome, Book 40 §49 altar of Mars

  Mars, god of war; at his altar in the Campus the censors sit and are reconciled.

• The History of Rome, Book 41 §13 grove of Mars

  The war-god Mars; a stone fell from the sky into his grove at Crustumerium as a prodigy.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §17 Mars

  The Roman god of war; the saying 'Mars is common to both' meant that the fortunes of war fall on either side unpredictably.

• The History of Rome, Book 45 §34 prayed to Mars

  Mars, the war-god, among those to whom the spoils were dedicated before burning.