Mars was the presider over gladiators, and was the god of all exercises, which have in them a manly or spirited character.
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————"The God whose potent hand
Shakes the tumultuous sea, and solid land:
The Ocean Lord, o'er Helicon who reigns,
O'er spacious Ægæ's wide extended plains;
To whom the gods, with equal skill concede,