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Orci

Orci is a Latin form of Orcus, meaning “god of the underworld, Dis; death; the underworld”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.48: … m delira quae timeat ista, quae vos videlicet, si physica non didicissetis, timeretis, Acherunsia templa alta Orci, pallida leti, nubila tenebris loca? non pudet philosophum in eo gloriari, quod haec non timeat et quod falsa …

All forms of Orcus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.