Cacus


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Cacus

fire-breathing giant monster. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 49]
See: Monsters

Cacus

Vulcan’s three-headed, thieving son. [Rom. Myth.: Benét, 154]
See: Thievery
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The host fancied he called him Castellan because he took him for a "worthy of Castile," though he was in fact an Andalusian, and one from the strand of San Lucar, as crafty a thief as Cacus and as full of tricks as a student or a page.
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"Ah, this gentleman is a Hercules killing Cacus, a Perseus freeing Andromeda."
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