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Bellona

Goddess of war and wife of Mars. (Roman mythology.)

“Her features, late so exquisitely lovely, inflamed with the fury of frenzy, resembled those of a Bellona.” —Sir Walter Scott.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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