Orcus

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Abstract from DBPedia
    Orcus (Latin: 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. In the later tradition, he was conflated with Dis Pater. 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.

    オルクス（Orcus）は、ローマ神話に登場する死の神。 本来はエトルリアの神で、墳墓の壁画では髭を生やした恐ろしげな巨人の姿で描かれる。後にプルートーと同一視された。小惑星オルクスのエポニムである。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Orcus)