Orcus

1 "I would accompany your majesty anywhere, were it into Orcus," exclaimed Alexander.

2 The return of Allobrigius and his tribesmen was celebrated by great rejoicings on the Orcus.

3 "To remain on high with the gods is life; to descend into this world is death, a descent into Orcus," they said.

4 So deemed the doughty Jew who dared    by studied silence low to lay Orcus and Hades, lands of shades,    the gloomy night of human day.

5 To be sure, Virgil sends Æneas into Orcus, and makes such descent a Book of his poem, but Virgil too speaks of a realm beyond his Orcus, which his Hero does not enter.

6 The gods were deafen'd with her cries-- Jove, Nemesis, the stern assize Of Orcus,--all the gods, in short, From whom she might the boon extort.

7 This subterranean place is the destination of all alike, rapacious Orcus sparing no one, good or bad.

8 I wish Orcus would devour them all, Greeks and barbarians!

9 Odysseus visited Hades, Aeneas descended to Orcus or Tartarus, and they have their counterparts in every land and every mythology.

10 Rather would I ride into Orcus a prisoner, than as such a conqueror into Ravenna!

11 Evil on ye, the shades of evil Orcus, Shades all beauteous happy things devouring, 15 Such a beauteous happy bird ye took him.

12 Better a live dog than a dead lion; better the meanest slave that draws breath, than the monarch of Orcus.

13 The work may have been published at the Saturnalia, and written shortly before, as Narcissus is represented as having just arrived in Orcus.

14 Back to gaping Orcus' fearful bonds, Haughty mourner! triumph not to-night!

15 "No, on the contrary such darkness lies before me that I must ask myself whether this is not the misty region of Orcus."

16 He was King of the Dead—not Death himself, whom the Greeks called Thanatos and the Romans, Orcus.

17 Plague upon you, dark and narrow Shades of Orcus, without pity Swallowing every thing that’s pretty— As ye took the pretty sparrow.

18 Sir Fulko, when he heard the names of Orcus and Erebus, swiftly flung himself on his horse and galloped off; they pursued, but could not overtake him.

19 I breathe free, single, Here in Orcus far from strife, Punch with Lethe I will mingle, And forget I have a wife.

20 The cool shades of Orcus allure him only with the false appearance of a haven of rest.

1 冥国

dis

2 阴间

eternal sulfurous Plutonian Tartarean hell shade underworld Hades Acheron

3 黄泉

infernal dis Hades Hel Erebus

4 冥王

Plutonic Plutonian Pluto

5 冥府

nether Stygian hell shade pit underworld Avernus She'ol under world