M.P.Speidel, 'The weapons keeper, the fisci curator, and the ownership of weapons in the Roman Army', in: M.P.Speidel, Roman Army Studies II, Mavors 8 (Stuttgart 1992), 131-136.
His military service completed, Ares dedicated his weapons and his period of service to Ares (the god of war). Having left these things he was taken to a world without order, where nothing but darkness exists.