PACATOR

Latin: Peacemaker or pacifier; from paco ("I make peaceful, pacify"), from pax ("peace"). To the Romans a peacemaker would necessarily also be a subjugator, a subduer, and a conqueror, thus is is sometimes listed as an attribute of Mars.


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PACATOR. -Sometimes by this cognomen at others by that of Bellator, Mars, as the reputed father of Romulus, was distinguished by his most ardent worshipers the Romans.  A bronze medallion of Gordian Pius, in the Des Camps collection, and exhibiting a fine sacrificial group is considered by Vaillant to show the devotion of that young prince to the God of Armies, in his two-fold character of pacific and warlike.

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