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Dis pater

also: Father Dis

Roman god of the underworld (Greek Pluto/Hades), who carried off Proserpina from the meadows near Henna in Sicily. The Hennan myth gives Cicero the geographical and theological frame for the desecration narrative of In Verrem 2.4.

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Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speeches · 1 mention

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