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noun

Ăres

gen. Ăris · gender masculine · decl. 3rd
the war-god Mars •
the war-god Mars (in Plaut. jocosely made to correspond with bellator, warrior): si tu ad legionem bellator clues, at ego in culinā Ares, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 54. (For the A, which is always short in Lat., cf. Lucil. ap. Scaur. Orth. p. 2255 P., and Mart. 9, 12, with reference to Hom. Il. 5, 31.)
Perseus ID: n3525 Key: Ares