PLUTO, in Pagan worship, the king of the infernal regions, was the son of Saturn and Ope, and the brother of Jupiter and Neptune. This deity finding himself childless and unmarried, mounted his chariot to visit the world; and arriving in Sicily, fell in love with Proserpine, whom he saw gathering flowers with her companions in the valley of Eunus, near mount Ætna; when, forcing her into his chariot, he drove her to the river Chernus, through which he opened himself a passage back to the realms of night. See Ceres and PROSERPINE.