Orcus

[ awr-kuh s ]

/ ˈɔr kəs /

the ancient Roman god of the underworld, identified with the Greek Pluto, or Hades.

the ancient Roman underworld; Hades; Dis.

Example sentences from the Web for orcus

An important natural enemy of this scale is the steel-blue ladybird beetle (Orcus chalybus), introduced from Australia.

Garden Pests in New Zealand |D. Miller
Orcus was Graecised as Plutus, but was himself totally without personality.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People |W. Warde Fowler
One may bring the greatest and most marvellous thing to perfection; it must yet go down to Orcus unhonoured and unsung.

Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) |Friedrich Nietzsche
Down with it, man: down with it to Orcus: let the whole accursed edifice sink thither, and tyranny be swallowed up for ever!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine--Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 |Various

Has gone blundering down into Orcus and the shark's belly, in that unutterable manner.

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) |Thomas Carlyle

Orcus

/ (ˈɔːkəs) /

another name for Dis (def. 1)