All 7 Uses
Mars
in
Ben Hur
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- Go,' said my teacher, in his last lecture—'Go, and, to make your lives great, remember Mars reigns and Eros has found his eyes.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- The world is going the same way; so, as to our future, down Eros, up Mars!†
Chpt 2.2
- Eros is dead, Mars reigns!†
Chpt 2.2
- Her games and spectacles are Greek inventions, dashed with blood to gratify the ferocity of her rabble; her religion, if such it may be called, is made up of contributions from the faiths of all other peoples; her most venerated gods are from Olympus—even her Mars, and, for that matter, the Jove she much magnifies.†
Chpt 2.5
- Down Eros, up Mars!†
Chpt 2.6
- "Down Eros, up Mars!" he shouted, whirling his lash with practised hand—"Down Eros, up Mars!" he repeated, and caught the well-doing Arabs of Ben-Hur a cut the like of which they had never known.†
Chpt 5.14
- "Down Eros, up Mars!" he shouted, whirling his lash with practised hand—"Down Eros, up Mars!" he repeated, and caught the well-doing Arabs of Ben-Hur a cut the like of which they had never known.†
Chpt 5.14
Definitions:
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(Mars as in: the Olympian god) Roman mythology: god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus
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(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) More commonly, Mars refers to the fourth planet from the sun.