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	Cacus
		Cacus lived in a cave in the Aventine Hill from where he terrorized the countryside.
		When Heracles returned with the cattle of Geryon, he passed Cacus' cave and lay down to sleep in the vicinity.
		At night Cacus dragged some of the cattle to his cave backward by their tails, so that their tracks would point in the opposite direction.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cacus.html (142 words)

	Cacus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cacus
		In Roman mythology, a giant son of Vulcan who stole some of Hercules' oxen and was killed by Hercules.
		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.
		Ah, this gentleman is a Hercules killing Cacus, a Perseus freeing Andromeda.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cacus (150 words)

	Cacus - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Greek mythology, Cacus was a fire-breathing monster and the son of Vulcan.
		A terrified Cacus blocked the entrance with a vast, immoveable boulder, forcing Heracles to tear at the top of the mountain to reach his adversary.
		Heracles grabbed Cacus and strangled the monster, and was lauded throughout the land for his act.
	www.monstropedia.org /index.php?title=Cacus (400 words)

	CACUS : Giant of Latium, labor Heracles ; Greek mythology : KAKOS
		The common opinion respecting the original character of Cacus is, that lie was the personification of some evil daemon, and this opinion is chiefly founded upon the descriptions of him given by the Roman poets.
		As Cacus, caught in his rocky chamber, startled and shocked by the unexpected torrent of light, was uncouthly roaring, Hercules showered down arrows upon him, then anything that would do to pelt him with--boughs and immense boulders.
		Cacus, seeing no other escape from his predicament, belched a great cloud of smoke (you may well be amazed at this part of the story), so that a smoke-screen went rolling over his lair, blotting out everything from sight, and the cave was all one thick, fl, fog-bound night, shot through with glares of flame.
	www.theoi.com /Gigante/GiganteKakos.html (1770 words)

	Cacus / Kakos
		In Greek mythology, Cacus was a fire-breathing monster and the son of Vulcan.
		Cacus attacked Heracles by spewing fire and smoke, while Heracles responded with tree branches and rocks the size of millstones.
		Heracles grabbed Cacus and strangled the monster, and was lauded throughout the land for his act.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Cacus.html (421 words)

	Cacus - Demons, Demonology, and Evil in Europe
		In Roman mythology, Cacus, the son of Vulcan, was a giant who lived in a cave on Mount Aventine.
		That night, Cacus stole two of the finest bulls and four heifers, dragging the cattle backwards by their tails in order to cover up their tracks and make it seem as if they had gone in the opposite direction.
		Cacus, the terror of the Aventine and a blot on its woods,
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/articleview.asp?Post=126 (507 words)

	Barron's Booknotes-The Aeneid by Virgil-Free Literature Summaries/Booknotes from PinkMonkey.com
		Cacus, a terrible creature who was half man and half monster, once terrorized the city.
		Although Cacus escaped into his cave and sealed it with a huge boulder, Hercules managed to rip off the top of the mountain, exposing Cacus in his lair.
		Cacus is another of those creatures that represent rage and disorder.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/barrons/aeneid39.asp (1159 words)

	Hercules and Cacus by BANDINELLI, Baccio
		The genesis of Hercules and Cacus dates to 1508 when a marble block was ordered for Michelangelo to carve as a counterpart to the David.
		His first model was incompatible with the block but he continued on the project through the 1527 expulsion of the Medici.
		In 1528, with the republicans in control, Michelangelo was given the block for a Samson and Philistine but after the Medici return in 1530 he was instructed to resume work in the chapel and Bandinelli to continue the Hercules and Cacus.
	www.wga.hu /html/b/bandinel/hercules.html (171 words)

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	The Temple of Hercules
		Although the actual name of the temple may be a bit in doubt, it appears quite likely that it was dedicated to some form of Hercules, demigod of victory and commercial enterprise.
		This area, bordered by the Tiber, the ancient cattle auction and the Circus Maximus is supposedly the general location of Hercules’s victory over Cacus during his return from the eighth of his labours.
		According to legend, as he was passing through Rome, and I would imagine this site, on his return from stealing the cattle of Geryon, when the monster Cacus made off with a few cattle and hid them in a nearby cave.
	www.roman-empire.net /articles/article-020.html (1354 words)

	Restoration of the statue of Hercules and Cacus
		Restoration of the statue of Hercules and Cacus
		First of all it was possible to examine the giant statue closely, making a complete survey and identifying all the various elements.
		There are 20 of them: 12 form the rock-like base, including the fore portion of the right foot of Cacus, 4 ferine heads, a dowel of curls on Cacus’ head, the left shoulder, a dowel and the aluminium club.
	www.comune.firenze.it /english/bellearti/restauro.htm (898 words)

	Hercules and Cacus
		One of those difficulties was his encounter with Cacus, a fire breathing monster who lived on human flesh.
		The lowing of one of the heifers led Hercules to the cave where Cacus was holding the cattle.
		Finally, with intense fury Hercules leapt on Cacus and strangled him, ridding the area of the menacing monster and recovering the stolen cattle.
	www.murrayco.com /eleganza/187Hercu.html (197 words)

	Cacus — Infoplease.com
		Cacus - Cacus A famous robber, represented as three-headed, and vomiting flames.
		Thief - Thief (See Autolycus, Cacus, etc.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894...
		Classical Mythology: The Far Corners of the Earth: The Final Four Labors - Heracles' final set of labors assigned by Eurystheus at Tiryns for immortality.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/cacus.html (191 words)

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	CliffsNotes::The Divine Comedy: Inferno:Book Summary and Study Guide
		A Centaur, Cacus, races up to the group and asks the location of the blasphemer.
		Virgil explains to Dante that Cacus does not reside with his fellows at the banks of Phlegethon because he stole Hercules’ cattle.
		Hercules avenged the theft by clubbing Cacus to death, and he continued clubbing long after Cacus was dead.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-77,pageNum-74.html (608 words)

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	Cacus
		He is usually called a son of Vulcan, and Ovid, who gives his story with considerable embellishments, describes Cacus as a fearful giant, who was the terror of the whole land.
		The common opinion respecting the original character of Cacus is, that he was the personification of some evil daemon, and this opinion is chiefly founded upon the descriptions of him given by the Roman poets.
		Hartung, however, thinks that Cacus, whom he identifies with Cacius, and his sister Caca were man penates, whose names he connects with caleo and coquo.
	bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/pantheon/Cacus.html (279 words)

	Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology - Section II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The battle between Hercules and Cacus, although one of the oldest of the traditions common to the whole Indo-European race, appears in Italy as a purely local legend, and is narrated as such by Virgil, in the eighth book of the AEneid; by Livy, at the beginning of his history; and by Propertius and Ovid.
		While he is taking his repose, the three-headed monster Cacus, a son of Vulcan and a formidable brigand, comes and steals his cattle, and drags them tail-foremost to a secret cavern in the rocks.
		As Caecius, the "darkener," became ultimately changed into Cacus, the "evil one," so the name of Vritra, the "concealer," the most famous of the Panis, was gradually generalized until it came to mean "enemy," like the English word fiend, and began to be applied indiscriminately to any kind of evil spirit.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/literarystudies/MythsandMyth-Makers/chap11.html (1808 words)

	General Information - Cacus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Roman mythology, Cacus, the son of Vulcan, was a giant who lived in a cave on Mount Aventine.
		Hercules' tenth labor was to steal the cattle of Geryon, the king of Tartessus in Spain.
		That night, Cacus stole two of the finest bulls and four heifers, dragging the cattle backwards by their tails in order to cover up their tracks and make it seem as if they had gone in the opposite direction.
	www.otherkin.com /pages/information/other-cacus.html (138 words)

	CACUS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cacus, son of Vulcan, was a fire-breathing, half-human monster.
		Theodulphus, the ninth-century bishop of Orleans, presents Cacus, the bad thief, opposed to Hercules as virtue in his poem, De libris quos legere solebam et qualiter fabulae poetarum a philosophis mystice pertractentur (PL 105: 331-332).
		Cacus appears medially, MkT 2107; Kacus, a spelling variant, occurs in Bo IV, Metr 7.52, 54.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/C/cacus.htm (219 words)

	Herakles vs. Hercules * Essays * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		The story of Cacus and the Roman Hercules is an example of the way in which the Romans incorporated the Greek Herakles into their pantheon and simultaneously made him a Roman.
		Cacus must have been familiar with the Homeric Hymn to Hermes because he used the same trick Hermes had used when he stole the cattle of Apollon, i.e.
		After a thunderous battle, Hercules drug the lifeless body of Cacus from the shattered cave, reclaimed his cattle and restored the accumulated plunder to the local inhabitants.
	messagenet.com /myths/essays/herakleshercules.html (2190 words)

	Dante's Inferno - Circle 8 - Subcircles 7-10
		Cacus is the angry Centaur who seeks to punish Vanni Fucci in the pit of the thieves.
		Virgil explains that Cacus is not with the other Centaurs patrolling the river of blood in the circle of violence (Inferno 12) because he fraudulently stole from a herd of cattle belonging to Hercules, who brutally clubbed Cacus to death (28-33).
		Cacus steals Hercules' cattle--four bulls and four heifers--by dragging them backwards into his cavern (in order to conceal evidence of his crime).
	danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu /utopia/circle8b.html (2486 words)

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		Cacus, a 23-year-old college student, is a geek.
		Deana Cacus hasn't had much luck yet finding someone to share her love of science exhibits, "The Twilight Zone," "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and Popular Science magazine.
		The one guy she met on gk2gk.com so far was a "Hal 9000 type," who was condescending when he realized she didn't know as much about computer coding as he did.
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	Hercules
		Hercules encountered him, and finding that it was of no avail to throw him, for he always rose up with renewed strength from every fall, he lifted him up from the earth and strangled him in the air.
		Cacus was a huge giant who inhabited a cave on Mount Aventine and plundered the surrounding country.
		That their footprints might not serve to show where they had been driven, he dragged them backward by their tails to his cave; so their tracks all seemed to show that they had gone in the opposite direction.
	www.usefultrivia.com /mythology/hercules.html (1973 words)

	Hercules in Rome: Hercules was the son of Zeus, the supreme god of Olympus, and of Alcmene, a mortal woman who was the ...
		While he's asleep, the local bad guy, Cacus, a fire-breathing son of Vulcan, steals four bulls and four cows from Hercules' newly liberated herd, and drags them by their tails into his cave.
		Initially, the ruse works, but one of the bulls outside bellows for his missing truelove and she moos a response from inside the cave.
		After a struggle, in which Hercules is "half singed, half stifled" by Cacus' flames and fumes, Hercules throttles him, ties his arms and legs in knots and plucks out his eyes.
	www.mmdtkw.org /VHerculesInRome.html (1195 words)

	Cacus - Olga's Gallery
		Cacus was one of the local deities or heroes of Rome.
		Cacus stole some of the oxen and hid them in his cave.
		When Hercules found that out he began to fight Cacus and won the battle.
	www.abcgallery.com /mythology/cacus.html (110 words)

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		When Cacus number one was attacked by the beatray, it promptly transferred all its life and intelligence to the youngster in its womb.
		Someone had to be chosen to try conclusions with the Cacus; someone had to risk his life, perhaps lose it, in a desperate effort to introduce the HCN into the monster's mouth.
		The Cacus had evidently been prowling down a side passage, and Duval had attracted its attention, then ducked around a corner into the main corridor; when they met, it would be at close quarters where there was no chance for the Frenchman to miss.
	www.geocities.com /futurgurl/FHUNTRESS.html (10025 words)

	Hercules and Cacus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of those difficulties was his encounter with Cacus, a fire breathing monster who lived on human flesh.
		The lowing of one of the heifers led Hercules to the cave where Cacus was holding the cattle.
		Finally, with intense fury Hercules leapt on Cacus and strangled him, ridding the area of the menacing monster and recovering the stolen cattle.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/hercules_and_cacus.html (183 words)

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		Now 2 years later, the base of the cacus is > starting to develop splits in it.
		Apart from the yellow stuff, the cacus appears healthy and has grown quite a bit over the last year.
		Hercules (conqueror of Troy) and Cacus (cattle thief).
	www.arizona.edu /index/super-search.cgi?basic=cacus (343 words)

	Caca@Everything2.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A very ancient Roman goddess, who is said to have been the sister of the robber Cacus.
		She may have betrayed her brother by disclosing to Heracles the secret place where Cacus had hidden the stolen oxen (see CACUS).
		In return Caca became the object of a cult and a flame was kept perpetually alight in her honour, as one was for the goddess Vesta.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node=caca (140 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - Hercules and Cacus
		On one occasion, driving his herd through Latium, the region where Rome would one day be established, Hercules stopped to nap on the bank of the Tiber river.
		While he slept Cacus, a fire-breathing monster who terrorized the countryside, stole the cattle, dragging them backward by their tails into his cave.
		When the hero awoke he followed the animals' lowing to the demon's lair, where he killed Cacus.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/European/1926.182.html (166 words)

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