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Acherusius

Acherusius · adj

Pertaining to the Acheron in Calabria

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 4 · 0.82/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ăchĕrūsĭus — Lewis & Short

ăchĕrūsĭus (old writing Acherunsius), a, um, adj.id..

I Pertaining to the Acheron in Calabria: aqua, Liv. 8, 24.—

II Pertaining to the Acheruns (Acheron), or the Lower World: templa, the Lower World, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 21, 48 (Trag. v. 107 ed. Vahl.); in Varr. L. L. 7, § 6 Müll.; and in Lucr. 1, 120; cf. Lucr. 3, 25 and 86: humor, Sil. 13, 398: vita, a life of gloom, Lucr. 3, 1024.—

III Pertaining to Acheron in Epirus: amnis, Just. 12, 2, 3.

In the wild

Acherusia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.120
Acherusia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.25
Acherusio Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 6.55.6
Acherusia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p7
Acherusia Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.86
Acherusius Silius Italicus, Punica 13.398

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