: oh, thought it might have been
The "This has been mentioned before" you're responding to is actually part of your message which I quoted. It wasn't written by me. :-)
: i know there's no devil but it was just a word iused for
: people who don't know who pluto was. I didn't know
: about orcus though.
Not surprising; Roman mythology's pretty heterogeneous, since it drew on Greek and Egyptian and Etruscan and Celtic and native rural sources all at once; so there were about twenty different deities for any given position. But if you look at the major urban literary sources you'll see Orcus most of the time. Catullus writes a poem about his girlfriend's bird dying and going down to meet Orcus, for instance.
: i knew some old pedant would correct me ;-p
Old... :-(
--SiliconDream