Editing Cacus (section)

==In later literature==
* In the ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' of the ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' by [[Dante Alighieri]], Cacus is depicted as a [[centaur]] with a fire-breathing [[dragon]] on his shoulders and [[snake]]s covering his equine back. He guards over the thieves in the Thieves section of [[Hell]]'s Circle of Fraud.<ref>Dante ''Inferno'' 25.17–33</ref>
* In the second book of ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]'', Cacus is said to be begotten by [[Polyphemus]] the Cyclops. He is also said to be the giant who fathered Etion.
* [[Miguel de Cervantes]] in his 1605 novel ''[[Don Quixote]]'' describes the inn keeper in the second chapter of part one "The First Sally from his Native Heath" as "No less a thief than Cacus himself, and as full of tricks as a student or a page boy."<ref>Miguel De Cervantes, ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' New York. Random House 1949 p. 33</ref> Cervantes also mentions Cacus as a prototypical thief in a comparison in the sixth chapter of ''Don Quixote'' part one, "The Scrutiny of the Curate and the Barber" when the Curate says "Here we have Sir Rindaldo of Montalbán with his friends and companions, bigger thieves than Cacus, all of them ..." The comparison is a slight on Rinaldo, as he had written a book ''The Mirror of Chivalry'' which the Curate and the Barber agree caused, in part, Don Quixote's descent into madness.<ref>Miguel De Cervantes, ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' New York. Random House 1949 pp. 53–54</ref>
* In ''[[A Letter to a Friend]]'' [[Sir Thomas Browne]] compares the reluctance with which old people go to the grave with the backwards movements of Cacus' oxen.<ref>Sir Thomas Browne ''Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, Letter to a Friend and Christian Morals'' London. Macmillan 1898 p. 145</ref>
* Cacus is described as a deformed outcast from an Italian village, able only to say "Cacus", in [[Steven Saylor]]'s novel ''[[Roma (2007 novel)|Roma]]'', playing a direct role in the events of the main character of the era.
* [[Lavinia]], in [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s 2008 novel ''[[Lavinia (novel)|Lavinia]]'', describes Cacus as a "fire lord, the chief man of a tribal settlement, who kept [[Vesta (mythology)|Vesta]] alight for the people of the neighborhood, with the help of his [[Vestals|daughters]]." Lavinia comments that the Greeks' story of the beast-man "was more exciting than mine."
* Cacus appears as the main antagonist in [[Rick Riordan]]'s short story in ''[[The Demigod Diaries]]'' titled "The Staff of Hermes". There were references to Cacus' fight with Hercules in that story. In the story, Cacus had stolen Hermes' Caduceus. He later attacked Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase. Annabeth hit Cacus with her metal claw and Percy killed Cacus with Hermes' Caduceus.