"Mars iratus bubonem interficit."

Translation: Angry Mars kills the owl.

[tc2018]

Oh no! Why would anyone want to kill Duo??

[stepintime]

I suspect Mars mistook him for a parrot. He's no ornithologist, after all. And, well, Duo is unusually green for an owl...

(I love the drunk parrots. Vobis gratias ago, contributores! :) )

[jaiirapetjan]

Drunken parrots and dirty poop sitting in the toilet are all quite entertaining. But I protest about all the violence towards birds.

[sousquark]

Fortasse venenum est, sed non violentiam.

[BeefTestos4]

The birds had it coming for a long time now.

[IanWitham1]

The owl is the pet of Athena and Ares and Athena do not get along. Haven't you seen that documentary? It was called Xena.

[Elin.7-1]

Yep, that's what I thought was going on...and what was the owl doing in the forum anyway!

stepintime has a point though....

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Sacred bird of Athena-Minerva, but not Ares-Mars.

[IanWitham1]

My original comment was ambiguous. I meant that the owl is Athena's pet. Ares and Athena do not get along. Not that the owl is the pet of Athena and Ares. I omitted a comma.

I am on Duolingo to improve my English. Learning how people say something in another language, tells me something about mine.

[MacBasse]

"The owl is the pet of Athena" it's not like that actually.

[xburcus]

Of course, the first sentence Mars appears in, he kills something.

[PERCE_NEIGE]

Someone.

[charly396845]

Something? Somebody!

[Dim-ond-dysgwr]

A Mars a day helps you work, rest, and slay.

[TJWphd]

I have to admit, I didn’t see this coming. Wow.

[ChiaStockwell]

Poor Duo

[dummytgicc]

i thought Duo was the main slayer, never would expect to see him being defeated..

[Noahgamerrr]

Mars impressed Duo with his Latin, so that Duo couldn't do anything against him

[KatrinaTheLamia]

Clearly Mars has been keeping up with his Spanish lessons--and thus Duo was not able to touch him.

[mikevir]

Asperi Romani sunt

[Carissa789117]

Mars does not like to learn languages.

[KatrinaTheLamia]

Maybe he does... but responded to Duo's somewhat more aggressive reminders in a slightly less aggressive manner.

[KatrinaTheLamia]

Does this mean that Mars' pet is a drunken parrot--you know, to show up Minerva/Athena?

"Athena is going to have a pet? Yeah--I'll show her! I'll get my own pet! With Blackjack and Hookers!"

[PERCE_NEIGE]

In English, would it be better to say "The angry Mars" or "Angry Mars"?

[neccurte]

Poor duo

[__CF__]

Mars Duom non interficere potest.

[Neptunium]

Could "iratus" be an adverb here, as in "Mars angrily kills the owl"?

[PERCE_NEIGE]

The adverb is "irate". = angrily, in an angry way.

(For the use of adjective like possible adverbs, it's not at my level of knowledge)

[HuibRenes]

As always, war is bad for education.