Meaning of Erebus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
   Greek
2. The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
   Greek
3. Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Examples

“Nay, were he Deul, as he is no man, Yet in reuenge of faire Zenocrate, UUhome he detayneth in deſpight of vs, This arme ſhould ſend him downe to Erebus, To ſhroud his ſhame in darkneſſe of the night.”

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