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Erebus

Erebus · m

The god of darkness

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Where it lives

Oedipus 4 · 6.74/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 4 · 5.74/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 4 · 3.55/10k
In Rufinum 2 · 3.49/10k
Hercules 2 · 2.63/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Thebais 13 · 2.08/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĕrĕbus — Lewis & Short

ĕrĕbus, i, m., = *)/erebos.

A The god of darkness, son of Chaos, and brother of Nox, Cic. N. D. 3, 17 fin.; Hyg. Myth. praef.; Verg. A. 4, 510; Ov. M. 14, 404.—

B The Lower World, Verg. G. 4, 471 Serv.; id. A. 6, 247; 7, 140; Ov. M. 5, 543; 10, 76, al.—Hence,

II ĕrĕbēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Lower World: colubrae, Ov. lb. 229.

In the wild

Erebi Lucan, Pharsalia 6.731
Erebum Claudian, In Rufinum 2.1.523
Erebi Claudian, Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.184
Erebo Statius, Thebais 7.785
Erebique Statius, Thebais 12.560
Erebo Silius Italicus, Punica 2.541

6 of 59 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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