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'''Prayers to Mars and the Gods of War'''

==M. Porcius Cato De Agricultura 141==

"Father Mars, I pray and beseech You, to be willing and propitious to
me, to our household and to our family, for which I have ordered this
suovitaurilia to be driven around my grain fields, my land, and my
estate, in order that You may prevent, repel, and avert, seen and
unseen <decay and> disease, deprivation, desolation, calamities, and
intemperate weather; I pray You allow the fruits, the grain, the
vines, and the bushes, to grow strong and well and be brought to the
storage pit. May You also keep the shepherds and their flocks safe,
and give good health and vigor to me, to the household, and to our
family. To this end it is, as I have said - namely, for the
purification and lustration of my estate, my land, and my grain
fields, cultivated and uncultivated - that I pray You may be honored
and strengthened by this suovitaurilia, these suckling sacrificial
victims. O Father Mars, to this same end I pray that You bless these
sucklings in sacrifice."

==Claudius Claudianus In Rufinum 1.334-48 ==

"Mars, whether you rush down from the cloud-capped Mount Haemus,
whether on the frosty white mountains of Thrace, whether stirring on
Monte Santo in Macedonia with the black boots of soldiers stationed
on all the lands they hold, to make ready with me, and defend your
Thrace, if it is made happy, the campaign coming into glory, the
sacred oak will be dressed with an offering of spolia."

Hearing his prayer, Father Mars arose from the snow-topped crag of
Mount Haemus exhorting His swift ministers: "Bellona, bring my
helmet; attend me, Pavor, fasten the wheels upon my war chariot;
Formido, bridle my swift horses in harness. Hastily press forward on
your work. See, (he) makes ready himself for war; Stilicho whose
habit it is to load me with rich trophies and hang upon the oak the
plumed helmets of his enemies. For us together the trumpets ever
sound the call to battle; yoking my chariot I follow wheresoever he
pitches his camp."

==Corpus Inscriptiones Latinae VI 2104, Rome, Carmen Fratrum Arvalium ==

Lasas assist us, Lasas delight us, Lasas come to our aid!
Neither plague nor ruin, Marmor, allow to be visited on us.
But if however we are invaded, like Mars we shall leap across our
borders
To sate you with the blood of our enemies and stay the barbarians.
Marmor assist us, Marmor defend us, Marmor come to our aid.
Triumph, triumph, triumph, triumph, triumph!

==Gellius Noctes Atticae 13.23.13==

When Titus Tatius spoke in favor of peace, among his words was this
prayer, Neria, wife of Mars, I appeal to you, give peace. May you
use your own favored position with your husband; counsel Him to
partake in this plan. In the same way as we reconcile ourselves to
those who carried off our daughters, may you now join with Him for
all times in favoring His.

==Horace Carmina 1.2.35-40==

Father Mars, too long have You neglected to look upon Your nation and
upon Your grandchildren. Alas, for too long have You been absent in
the game of war. Recall Your delight in the clash of battle; come,
Mars, take pride once more in the sight of polished Roman helmets
gleaming, and how the battle hardened legions meet the grimacing
Maurians in battle. Come now, we pray.

==Livy 8.9.6-8 ==

Janus, Jupiter, Father Mars, Quirinus, Bellona, Lares, You divine
Novensiles and You divine Indigetes, deities whose power extends over
us and over our foes, and to You, too, Divine Manes, I pray, I do You
reverence, I crave Your grace and favour will bless the Roman People,
the Quirites, with power and victory, and will visit fear, dread and
death on the enemies of the Roman People, the Quirites. In like
manner as I have uttered this prayer so do I now on behalf of the
commonwealth of the Quirites, on behalf of the army, the legions, the
auxiliaries of the Roman People, the Quirites, devote the legions and
auxiliaries of the enemy, together with myself to Tellus and the
Divine Manes.

==Livy 10.19.17-18 ==

If today, Bellona, You grant us victory, a new temple I vow.

==Livy 19.27.1 ff. ==

When dawn arrived Scipio emerged from his headquarters in ritual
decorum to pray before the advance guard. He prayed, Gods and
Goddesses who inhabit the land and sea, to You I pray and ask that
whatsoever has been done under my auspices and my command, is now
being done or shall be done, may prove beneficial for me, for the
people of Rome and their children, and for our allies and the Latins,
who joined with the Roman army under my auspices in waging war on
land and sea. May Your good counsel and assistance be with me and
may You bless all our endeavors with rich increase. May You guard
the welfare and sustenance of our soldiers, allow the victors to
return home healthy and safe, and laden with the spoils of victory.
May they bring back honors and plunder to share in my triumphal
procession after defeating our enemy. Grant to me and to the Roman
people the power of vengeance and the opportunity and means to
inflict on our enemies the same as the Carthaginians have striven to
inflict against the people of Rome and thereby an example shall be
set for others.

==Lucan De Bello Civili: Pharsalia 2.47-49==

Gods above, we do not pray for peace. Grant rage onto the nations.
May You now arouse the cities; bring forth the whole world in arms to
war.

==Macrobius Saturnalia 3.9.7-8: Scipio Africanus' evocation of the Gods of Carthage.==

Whether you are a god or a goddess of these people who defends this
city of Carthage, and you Most High, take back your favor in defense
of this city and these people whom I attack. I pray, I beseech, I
ask your indulgence, that you withdraw and desert these people and
this city of Carthage, and that you relinquish the temples and sacred
precincts of this city, go away without them, and incite these people
and their city into fear of oblivion. Come then to favor Rome by
crossing over to me and my army, and with our city tried and accepted
as the location for your sacred precincts and holy rites, be
propitious to me and the people of Rome, and my soldiers. If you
make this happen, with clear and recognizable signs, I vow to erect
temples for you and to initiate games in your honor.

==Macrobius Saturnalia 3.9.10-11: The devotio of Carthage to the Gods of the Underworld==

Dis Pater, Veiovis, and Di Manes, or with any other name by which it
is proper to call You, since all in this city of Carthage and its
army, who, I feel, fled before me in terror only because you filled
them with alarm and fright, everyone who opposes our legions and the
wall of shields of our army, and our missiles are carried forward on
them by your hand, in this way you led away the enemy army and their
soldiers. Their city and fields, and those who are in this place and
this region, the lands and cities that they inhabit, you have now
deprived them of the supreme light, their hostile army, their city
and their lands. I feel to say that it was you who has devoted and
consecrated this city and its lands, from the beginning and all time,
that by law, who and when are made over and devoted as the highest
sacrifices. Therefore, I who am victorious, by my faith as a
magistrate of the people of Rome, and as commander of the armies, I
give this vow on behalf of the people of Rome, our armies and
legions, that you may retain everything born to this land and that
grew in healthy by your aid. If you will make this happen, so that
I may know, sense and derive that this has happened, then by whatever
vow will have been made, wherever it will have been made, may it be
properly made with sheep sacrificed upon the tribal altars. I call
upon Tellus, Mother Earth, and You mighty Jupiter, to act as
witnesses to my vow.

==Ovid Fasti 3.1-2==

Bellicose Mars, lay aside for awhile Your round bronze shield and
spear. Mars, be present and let loose from its helmet Your sleek,
shining hair.

==Ovid Fasti 3.73-6==

Arbiter of arms, from whose blood I am believed to have been born,
and many the proofs I will give that are accepted, after You we will
begin the Roman year, from Your name, Father, we will name the first
month of the year.

==Ovid Fasti 4.827==

Then king Romulus said, As I found this city, be present, Jupiter,
Father Mars, and Mother Vesta, and all gods who it is pious to
summon, join together to attend. Grant that my work may rise with
Your auspices. Grant that it may for many years hold dominion on
earth, and assert its power over the east and west.

==Ovid Fasti 5.573-77==

If, Father, my war is authorized by Vesta's priestess, and whenever I
prepare to take divine vengeance, Mars, be by my side and satiate
cold steel with guilt's blood, and lend Your favour to the better
side. If I am victorious for You I'll build a shrine and call You
Ultor, Mars the Avenger.

==Plautus Bacchides 847-48==

Mars and Bellona, never trust me again, if I do not make him
breathless, if ever I should meet him once more and not take away his
vital breath.

==Silius Italicus Punica 3.126-27==

But You, O (Mars) Father of Warfare, have pity on us, turn evil aside
from us and preserve (my husband's) life as inviolable to all Trojan
assaults.

==Silius Italicus Punica 10.553-54==

Father Mars, You who were not at all deaf to my vows, these men,
survivors of the battle, dedicate to You the choicest armour of our
victory trophies.

==Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 5.250-52==

Mars Gradivus, hear me, on whose sacred oak which fleece glitters.
Protect it and keep it safe always, your arms prepared to clash at
the clarion's sound to which your voice responds, ringing out in the
darkness.

==Vellius Paterculus II 131==

Jupiter Capitolinus, Mars Gradivus called progenitor and aide of the
Romans, Vesta, perpetual guardian of fire, and whatever divine powers
in this greatness of Roman sovereignty, the largest empire on earth,
exulted to the highest dignity, to You the public voice calls to
witness and to pray: guard, preserve, and protect this state, this
peace, this prince, and those who succeed to the Senate, by their
long standing, determined worthy to consider the most grave matters
among mortals.

==Virgil Aeneid 12.176-82; 197-211==

May the Sun now bear witness, and so too the Earth, I pray, for whom
I have been able to endure these many labors, and you, Almighty
Father, and you his consort, (Juno), daughter of Saturnus, at one
time more beneficial, at another kinder, be so now as I pray to you,
O Goddess, and to you, too, Father Mavors, who wields all warfare
under your powers, and on all the springs and rivers of this land I
invoke as witnesses, and all the powers of the high heavens and those
of the deep blue seas on whom it is proper to call.

By these same deities I, Aeneas, swear, by the Earth and the Sea, by
the stars and Latona's twin children, and dual-faced Janus, and the
powers of the gods below, and the harsh shrines of Father Dis. May
the Great Father hear my vow, he that sanctions alliances with his
thunderbolt. I touch the altars, and by the fires and by the divine
powers who I have called to witness, I so swear, that never shall I
breach this alliance or the peace of Italy, no matter what or how
things happen, nothing shall divert my will (to keep my vow), not
even if waves would cover the earth, plunging all into deluge, and
the Heavens fell into deepest Tartarus. (By this vow I swear to be
bound), even as this scepter, (the scepter that he now held up in his
right hand), shall never bud new foliage, or branch out to lend
shade, once it was cut deep in the forest, seized from its mother
tree, its leaves and branches now encased in steel; once a tree, now
an artifact turned by hand, decorated with bronze, and given to the
Latin fathers to bear.

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