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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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.