god
Orcus
God and underworld of the dead, equivalent to the realm of Pluto/Hades. Named among the fates the soul might meet after death -- fears Lucretius means to dispel.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.53 Orcus
The god of death and the underworld (also the realm itself); the maimed cry out to him as they die.
- On the Nature of Things §6.21 Orcus
God and realm of the dead; Lucretius denies that the deadly Avernian sites are 'the gate of Orcus.'