Orcus

Orcus
God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths
Member of the Di selecti
Orcus Mouth, a 16th-century folly in the Gardens of Bomarzo.
Other names	Dis Pater, Hades (Pluto)[a]
Abode	Hades, Underworld
Gender	Male
Equivalents
Greek equivalent	Horkos, Hades
Etruscan equivalent	Orcus

Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. Eventually, he was conflated with Dis Pater and Pluto.

A temple to Orcus may once have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It is likely that he was transliterated from the Greek daemon Horkos, the personification of oaths and a son of Eris.^{[citation needed]}
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