Bellona

Roman goddess of war, Mars's companion in the Latin poets: "grim Bellona" calls Aeneas to the fighting in burning Troy, Juno promises Lavinia a bridal bed lit by "Bellona's blaze", and on the shield of Aeneas she "waves her sanguinary scourge" beside Discordia at Actium; in Ovid she drenches a wedding hall in blood.