Dis

Contracted from Dives, a name sometimes given to Pluto, and hence also to the lower world.

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References

Sources

  • Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods ii, 26.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Aeneid vi, 127.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.