Pluʹto

The grave, or the god of that region where the dead go to before they are admitted into Elysium or sent to Tarʹtaros.

“Brothers, be of good cheer, this night we shall sup with Pluto.”—Leonidas to the three hundred Spartans before the battle of Thermopylœ.

“Give the untasted portion you have won …

To those who mock you, gone to Pluto’s reign.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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