Quinquatria Magnanimous, unconquer’d, boistrous Mars, in darts rejoicing, and in bloody wars Fierce and untam’d, whose mighty pow’r can make the strongest walls from their foundations shake: Mortal destroying king, defil’d with gore, pleas’d with war’s dreadful and tumultuous roar: Thee, human blood, and swords, and spears delight, and the dire ruin of mad savage … Continue reading Orphic Hymn LXIV. TO MARS [ARES]