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Use of the terms "Dīs" and "Orcus" in the Aeneid
Hades-pluto isn’t the god of death, he is god of dead.
In virgil’ works, he rarely did call pluto by this name and often called him dis,orcus,stygian king, stygian jove and other names and epithets, ...
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