Bellona is the goddess of war among the Romans, similar to the Ancient Greek Enyo...
The name "Bellona" derived from the Latin word for "war" (bellum), and is directly related to the modern English words "belligerent" (lit., "war-waging"), "bellicose" and "antebellum"...
In earlier times she was called Duellona, the name being derived from a more ancient word for "battle"...
She is frequently mentioned by the Roman poets as the companion of Mars, or even as his sister or his wife...
Virgil describes her as armed with a bloody scourge...
The main object for which Bellena was invoked, was to grant a warlike spirit and enthusiasm which no enemy could resist...
Ammianus Marcellinus, in describing the Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople refers to "Bellona, blowing her mournful trumpet, was raging more fiercely than usual, to inflict disaster on the Romans"...
Today Bellona stands guard over the Military Affairs Committee of the United States Congress...
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Bellona might be actually Nerio:
See Mars:
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