The Anathemata
Keel, Ram, Stauros (continued)
Given pet agnomina?
the Mauler, the Leaper
Marmor’s other flail, Bellona’s left
the Thunderer’s right dook.
Half a mo Hector, Bumping Hecate, Long Doris
Lysistrata No. 2.3
David Jones notes
3 Cf. the meaning of Lysistrata’s name, ‘Dissolver of Armies’.
additional notes
Marmor’s other flail: because Marmor (Mars) first had a flail as an agricultural god; Bellona was an ancient Roman goddess of war; left = straight left as in boxing; Thunderer = Iuppiter/Iove; dook = fist (Victorian fighting slang); Lysistrata (i.e. No. 1) is the play by Aristophanes in which the women of Greece force the men to abandon the war.
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