Orcus

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.28 Orcus

  The underworld of the dead, to which even the twice-living son of Panthous returned.

• The Odes §2.3 Orcus

  The god of death, 'who pities nothing'; rich and poor alike are his victims.

• The Odes §2.18 rapacious Orcus

  Death, whose 'appointed end' awaits the rich lord as surely as the poor.

• The Odes §3.4 Orcus

  The underworld to which the Giants are hurled by the bolt.

• The Odes §3.11 Orcus

  The underworld where the Danaides' 'late doom' waits upon their sin.

• The Odes §3.27 Orcus

  Death, which Europa 'shamelessly keeps waiting' in her despair.

• The Odes §4.2 Orcus

  Pindar 'grudges to black Orcus' the hero he lifts to the stars.

• The Epistles §2.2 Orcus

  The underworld and its god of death; 'driven to Orcus' means carried off to die.

• The Satires §2.5 to Orcus

  Orcus, the underworld and its death-god; 'driven to Orcus' means carried off to die — here the rich man's son whose death opens the inheritance.