Reading notes

• The Aeneid §2.398 Orcus

  The underworld, realm of the dead.

• The Aeneid §4.242 Orcus

  The underworld; Mercury's wand summons pale souls from it.

• The Aeneid §6.273 Orcus

  The underworld, or its god; its 'first jaws' are crowded with allegorical terrors.

• The Aeneid §8.296 Orcus

  Orcus, god of the underworld and of death; the realm whose gate Cerberus keeps.

• The Aeneid §9.527 Orcus

  God of death and the underworld; warriors are 'sent down to Orcus.'

• The Georgics §1.277 Orcus

  The death-god and the underworld; 'pale Orcus' belongs to the unlucky fifth day.