All 50 Uses
Mars
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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- [Illustration: MARS.†
Book 1
- MARS.†
Book 1
- (83) On this bright sceptre now the king reclined, And artful thus pronounced the speech design'd: "Ye sons of Mars, partake your leader's care, Heroes of Greece, and brothers of the war†
Book 2
- The king of kings, majestically tall, Towers o'er his armies, and outshines them all; Like some proud bull, that round the pastures leads His subject herds, the monarch of the meads, Great as the gods, the exalted chief was seen, His strength like Neptune, and like Mars his mien;(99) Jove o'er his eyes celestial glories spread, And dawning conquest played around his head.†
Book 2
- Two valiant brothers rule the undaunted throng, Ialmen and Ascalaphus the strong: Sons of Astyoche, the heavenly fair, Whose virgin charms subdued the god of war: (In Actor's court as she retired to rest, The strength of Mars the blushing maid compress'd) Their troops in thirty sable vessels sweep, With equal oars, the hoarse-resounding deep.†
Book 2
- As thus, with glorious air and proud disdain, He boldly stalk'd, the foremost on the plain, Him Menelaus, loved of Mars, espies, With heart elated, and with joyful eyes: So joys a lion, if the branching deer, Or mountain goat, his bulky prize, appear; Eager he seizes and devours the slain, Press'd by bold youths and baying dogs in vain.†
Book 3
- This if the Phrygians shall refuse to yield, Arms must revenge, and Mars decide the field.†
Book 3
- Each host now joins, and each a god inspires, These Mars incites, and those Minerva fires, Pale flight around, and dreadful terror reign; And discord raging bathes the purple plain; Discord!†
Book 4
- Mars rallies the Trojans, and assists Hector to make a stand.†
Book 5
- Juno and Minerva descend to resist Mars; the latter incites Diomed to go against that god; he wounds him, and sends him groaning to heaven.†
Book 5
- To Mars, who sat remote, they bent their way: Far, on the left, with clouds involved he lay; Beside him stood his lance, distain'd with gore, And, rein'd with gold, his foaming steeds before.†
Book 5
- Stern Mars attentive hears the queen complain, And to her hand commits the golden rein; She mounts the seat, oppress'd with silent woe, Driven by the goddess of the painted bow.†
Book 5
- [Illustration: VENUS, WOUNDED IN THE HAND, CONDUCTED BY IRIS TO MARS.†
Book 5
- VENUS, WOUNDED IN THE HAND, CONDUCTED BY IRIS TO MARS.†
Book 5
- The mighty Mars in mortal fetters bound,(149) And lodged in brazen dungeons underground, Full thirteen moons imprison'd roar'd in vain; Otus and Ephialtes held the chain: Perhaps had perish'd had not Hermes' care Restored the groaning god to upper air.†
Book 5
- [Illustration: OTUS AND EPHIALTES HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE.†
Book 5
- OTUS AND EPHIALTES HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE.†
Book 5
- The sire of gods and men superior smiled, And, calling Venus, thus address'd his child: "Not these, O daughter are thy proper cares, Thee milder arts befit, and softer wars; Sweet smiles are thine, and kind endearing charms; To Mars and Pallas leave the deeds of arms."†
Book 5
- Meantime on Ilion's tower Apollo stood, And calling Mars, thus urged the raging god: "Stern power of arms, by whom the mighty fall; Who bathest in blood, and shakest the embattled wall, Rise in thy wrath!†
Book 5
- Mars hovers o'er them with his sable shield, And adds new horrors to the darken'd field: Pleased with his charge, and ardent to fulfil, In Troy's defence, Apollo's heavenly will: Soon as from fight the blue-eyed maid retires, Each Trojan bosom with new warmth he fires.†
Book 5
- And now the god, from forth his sacred fane, Produced AEneas to the shouting train; Alive, unharm'd, with all his peers around, Erect he stood, and vigorous from his wound: Inquiries none they made; the dreadful day No pause of words admits, no dull delay; Fierce Discord storms, Apollo loud exclaims, Fame calls, Mars thunders, and the field's in flames.†
Book 5
- Great Menelaus views with pitying eyes, Lifts his bright lance, and at the victor flies; Mars urged him on; yet, ruthless in his hate, The god but urged him to provoke his fate.†
Book 5
- Great Hector saw, and, raging at the view, Pours on the Greeks: the Trojan troops pursue: He fires his host with animating cries, And brings along the furies of the skies, Mars, stern destroyer!†
Book 5
- Behold where Mars in mortal arms appears!†
Book 5
- The generous Greeks recede with tardy pace, Though Mars and Hector thunder in their face; None turn their backs to mean ignoble flight, Slow they retreat, and even retreating fight.†
Book 5
- Who first, who last, by Mars' and Hector's hand, Stretch'd in their blood, lay gasping on the sand?†
Book 5
- Mars, red with slaughter, aids our hated foes: Haste, let us arm, and force with force oppose!†
Book 5
- Can Mars rebel, and does no thunder roll?†
Book 5
- heedful of thy high commands, Loth I gave way, and warn'd our Argive bands: For Mars, the homicide, these eyes beheld, With slaughter red, and raging round the field.†
Book 5
- Not Mars himself, nor aught immortal, fear.†
Book 5
- She snatch'd the reins, she lash'd with all her force, And full on Mars impelled the foaming horse: But first, to hide her heavenly visage, spread Black Orcus' helmet o'er her radiant head.†
Book 5
- [Illustration: DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS.†
Book 5
- DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS.†
Book 5
- Full at the chief, above his courser's head, From Mars's arm the enormous weapon fled: Pallas opposed her hand, and caused to glance Far from the car the strong immortal lance.†
Book 5
- Mars bellows with the pain: Loud as the roar encountering armies yield, When shouting millions shake the thundering field.†
Book 5
- Of lawless force shall lawless Mars complain?†
Book 5
- thus the vigorous combat wage; No son of Mars descend, for servile gains, To touch the booty, while a foe remains.†
Book 6
- (170) Woes heap'd on woes consumed his wasted heart: His beauteous daughter fell by Phoebe's dart; His eldest born by raging Mars was slain, In combat on the Solymaean plain†
Book 6
- Supine he fell: those arms which Mars before Had given the vanquish'd, now the victor bore: But when old age had dimm'd Lycurgus' eyes, To Ereuthalion he consign'd the prize.†
Book 7
- Soon as the rosy morn had waked the day, To the black ships Idaeus bent his way; There, to the sons of Mars, in council found, He raised his voice: the host stood listening round.†
Book 7
- Forth rush a tide of Greeks, the passage freed; The Atridae first, the Ajaces next succeed: Meriones, like Mars in arms renown'd, And godlike Idomen, now passed the mound; Evaemon's son next issues to the foe, And last young Teucer with his bended bow.†
Book 8
- Fierce on his rattling chariot Hector came: His eyes like Gorgon shot a sanguine flame That wither'd all their host: like Mars he stood: Dire as the monster, dreadful as the god!†
Book 8
- Straight to Menoetius' much-loved son he sent: Graceful as Mars, Patroclus quits his tent; In evil hour!†
Book 11 *
- So Mars armipotent invades the plain, (The wide destroyer of the race of man,) Terror, his best-beloved son, attends his course, Arm'd with stern boldness, and enormous force; The pride of haughty warriors to confound, And lay the strength of tyrants on the ground: From Thrace they fly, call'd to the dire alarms Of warring Phlegyans, and Ephyrian arms; Invoked by both, relentless they dispose, To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.†
Book 13
- Deiphobus beheld him as he pass'd, And, fired with hate, a parting javelin cast: The javelin err'd, but held its course along, And pierced Ascalaphus, the brave and young: The son of Mars fell gasping on the ground, And gnash'd the dust, all bloody with his wound.†
Book 13
- Now, where in dust the breathless hero lay, For slain Ascalaphus commenced the fray, Deiphobus to seize his helmet flies, And from his temples rends the glittering prize; Valiant as Mars, Meriones drew near, And on his loaded arm discharged his spear: He drops the weight, disabled with the pain; The hollow helmet rings against the plain.†
Book 13
- Far o'er the plains, in dreadful order bright, The brazen arms reflect a beamy light: Full in the blazing van great Hector shined, Like Mars commission'd to confound mankind.†
Book 13
- if counsel profit aught: Arms cannot much: though Mars our souls incite, These gaping wounds withhold us from the fight.†
Book 14
- Juno, repairing to the assembly of the gods, attempts, with extraordinary address, to incense them against Jupiter; in particular she touches Mars with a violent resentment; he is ready to take arms, but is prevented by Minerva.†
Book 15
- all he wills, obey: And thou, great Mars, begin and show the way.†
Book 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(Mars as in: the Olympian god) Roman mythology: god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) More commonly, Mars refers to the fourth planet from the sun.