Orc in common to them. A monster called "Orcus" is mentioned in Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (Book II, Canto XII, line xlvii). The word ultimately comes from Latin "Orcus", the demonic Roman god of death, who should not be confused with Pluto, the god of the underworld, and has transformed by several stages from the meanings "underworld", "hell", "devil", "evil creature" to "ogre". Tolkien and the lexicons he used attributed the origin of the doubtful Old English "orc" to "Orcus" and in one of his invented languages, the word for orc also had the form "orco". Words derived from or related
Dis (Divine Comedy) halls and vacant realm of Dis" with his guide, the Sibyl, who correspond in "The Divine Comedy" to "Dante" as the speaker of the poem and his guide, Virgil. The walls of Dis are guarded by fallen angels, the Furies, and Medusa. Dante emphasizes the character of the place as a city by describing its architectural features: towers, gates, walls, ramparts, bridges, and moats. It is thus an antithesis to the heavenly city, as for instance described by St. Augustine in his book "City of God". Among these structures are mosques, "the worship places of the most dangerous enemies of