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Acheruns

Acheruns, a river of the lower world

Ăchĕruns, untis, m. v. Acheron (f., Plaut. Capt. 5, 4, 2 (999); cf. Non. 191, 24; poet. in Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37; the u for o, as in Enn. and Lucr. 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 (1078); 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 (608); so id. Capt. 3, 5, 31 (689); 5, 4, 1 (998). —Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron; said of a corrupt, abandoned man, in Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 12 (155): Acheruntis ostium, disparagingly of bad land, id. Trin. 2, 4, 124 (525): mittere aliquem Acheruntem, to kill one, id. Cas. 2, 8, 12 (448); 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 (1029) (cf. Capt. 3, 4, 117 [found: 689]).
  • —Hence, Ăchĕruntĭcus, a, um, adj., belonging to, or fit for, Acheruns, or the Lower World: regiones, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 2, 21 (199): senex, i. e. with one foot in the grave, id. Merc. 2, 2, 19 (290); id. Mil. 3, 1, 33 (628).

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