ăchĕruns — Lewis & Short
ăchĕruns, untis, m.v. Acheron (f., poet. in
Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2; cf. Non. 191, 24; Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; the u for o, as in Enn. and Lucr.I frundes for frondes, acc. Gr. Acherunta, Lucr. 4, 170; 6, 251); a form much used by ante-class. poets, esp. by Plaut.,
I For Acheron no. II. B.: adsum atque advenio Acherunte, poet. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 245;
si ab Acherunte veniam,Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 26; so Lucr. 3, 37; 628 al.—And with the ending i (as in Karthagini):
si neque hic neque Acherunti sum, ubi sum?Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 21; so id. Capt. 3, 5, 31; 5, 4, 1. —Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron; said of a corrupt, abandoned man, in Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 12:
Acheruntis ostium, disparagingly of bad land,id. Trin. 2, 4, 124:
mittere aliquem Acheruntem,to kill one, id. Cas. 2, 8, 12; and:
abire ad Acheruntem,to die, id. Poen. prol. 71:
ulmorum Acheruns, jestingly of a slave, upon whose back rods had been broken,id. Am. 4, 2, 9 (cf. Capt. 3, 4, 117).—Hence, ăchĕruntĭcus, a, um, adj., belonging to, or fit for, Acheruns, or the Lower World:
regiones,Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21:
senex,i. e. with one foot in the grave, id. Merc. 2, 2, 19; id. Mil. 3, 1, 33.