Orcus and Pluto

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Orcus noun - God of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto.

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Pluto and Orcus are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Pluto" with "Orcus", this nouns are similar.

Pluto noun - (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone.

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Orcus and Pluto are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Orcus" with "Pluto", this nouns are similar.

When the Greek influence poured in, Dis Pater and Orcus were equated with Pluto and Hades, respectively, but all four were somehow eventually crammed up so that only Hades and whatever god of the remaining three that the author liked the most remained, hence the confusion.

Source: Ancient Grome
Which is in itself an example of not doing the research,note well, that, or Rule of Funny, as Pluto was simply a Latinization of the Greek Πλούτων (Ploutōn), the god's actual Roman names being "Dis" or "Orcus."

Source: Ancient Grome

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