The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dis Pater
Dis \Dis\, prop. n. [L.]
The god Pluto, god of the underworld; also called Dis
Pater.
--Shak.
Usage examples of "dis pater".
Februus was probably the Etruscan god who corresponded to Dis Pater.
In Etruria they also invoked a certain Mancus who must have been another Dis Pater.
And something came back to me from Julius Caesar's writings about Gaul, that the Keltoi had come from Dis Pater, the god of the night.