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Orcus

noun
1.
God of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto.  Synonym: Dis.






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... tracts to you, O sound thinker, in your easy-chair! or to you, practised statesman, at your post on the Treasury Bench; to you, calm dignitary of a learned Church; or to you, my lord judge, who may often have sent from your bar to the dire Orcus of Norfolk's Isle the ghosts of men whom that rubbish, falling simultaneously on the bumps of acquisitiveness and combativeness, hath untimely slain! Sad rubbish to you! But seems it such rubbish to the ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



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