A.Pluto, god of the nether world, first in Trag., as A.Pr.806, S.Ant.1200, E.Alc.360, HF808 (lyr.): acc. to Plato (from πλοῦτος) the wealth-giver, a name of Hades, ὅτι ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀνίεται [ὁ πλοῦτος], Cra.403a, cf. πλουτοδότης; identified with Plutus, and considered as the god of riches, cf. S.Fr.273, Ar.Pl.727:—hence Πλουτώνιος , α, ον, of or belonging to Pluto;
Πλούτων , ωνος, ὁ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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