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|Text=Χάος, -ους, τό.
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|lshtext=<b>Chăŏs</b>: or Chăus, abl. Chao ([[other]] cases not used in the [[class]]. per.;<br /><b>I</b> gen. Chaï, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 664; dat. Chaï, Prisc. p. 720 P.), n., = Χάος.<br /><b>I</b> The [[boundless]], [[empty]] [[space]]; as the [[kingdom]] of [[darkness]], the Lower World: [[ingens]], Ov. M. 10, 30; 14, 404; id. Ib. 84: [[inane]], id. F. 4, 600: caecum, Sen. Med. 741; Stat. Th. 12, 772; Val. Fl. 7, 402; impersonated, masc., [[god]] of the Lower World, [[father]] of Erebos and Nox, Verg. A. 4, 510 (acc. [[Chaos]]); 6, 265; Quint. 3, 7, 8; cf.: [[Janus]]... edidit hos sonos; me [[Chaos]] antiqui, nam [[sum]] res prisca, vocabant, Ov. F. 1, 103.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Hence also, [[immeasurable]] [[darkness]], [[deep]] [[obscurity]]: Cimmerium, Stat. S. 3, 2, 92: horridum, Prud. Cath. 5, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> The [[confused]], [[formless]], [[primitive]] [[mass]] [[out]] of [[which]] the [[universe]] [[was]] made, [[chaos]], Ov. M. 1, 7; 2, 299; Lact. 1, 5, 8; 2, 8, 8: a Chao, [[since]] the [[creation]] of the [[world]], Verg. G. 4, 347.
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