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|lshtext=<b>infernus</b>: a, um, adj. [[infer]],<br /><b>I</b> [[lower]], [[that]] [[which]] lies [[beneath]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and postAug.).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: hic [[sese]] infernis de partibus erigit [[Hydra]], from [[beneath]], Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 114: [[superi]] infernique Di, Liv. 24, 38, 8: stagna, id. 8, 24, 3: [[auster]], Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128: [[mare]], the Tuscan Sea, Luc. 2, 400.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic., [[underground]], belonging to the Lower Regions, [[infernal]]: rex, [[Pluto]], Verg. A. 6, 106: [[Juno]], [[Proserpine]], id. ib. 6, 138: [[sedes]], id. ib. 8, 244: [[tenebrae]], id. ib. 7, 325: [[infernas]] umbras carminibus elicere, to [[raise]] the [[dead]] by magical incantations, Tac. A. 2, 28: [[palus]], the [[Styx]], Ov. F. 2, 610: [[ratis]], [[Charon]]'s [[boat]], Prop. 3, 5, 14 (4, 4, 14 Müll. [[infernas]] rates): [[rota]], [[Ixion]]'s [[wheel]], id. 1, 9, 20: sorores, the Furies, Claud. ap. Ruf. 1, 27: [[aspectus]], Tac. G. 43.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Substt.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; infernum, i, n., the depths of the [[earth]]: ex inferno audiri, Jul. Obseq. 105 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[infernus]], i, m., [[hell]] (eccl. Lat.), Ambros. in Psa. 48, §§ 22, 24; Vulg. Job, 17, 13; id. Psa. 9, 18. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; inferni, ōrum, m., the shades [[below]]: [[Theseus]] infernis, superis testatur [[Achilles]], Prop. 2, 1, 37; 2, 28, 49.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; inferna, ōrum, n.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> The [[lower]] parts of the [[body]], the [[abdomen]], Plin. 25, 5, 21, § 51.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> The [[infernal]] regions, Tac. H. 5, 5; Sol. 43, 2; Sen. Herc. Fur. 428.—In eccl. Lat. = [[infernus]], [[hell]], Lact. 6, 3, 11; Vulg. Job, 21, 13. —Hence, adv.: infernĕ, [[below]], [[beneath]] (a favorite [[word]] of Lucr.), Lucr. 6, 597 (opp. [[superne]]); id. 6, 764; 187.
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|gf=<b>īnfernus</b>,¹⁰ a, um ([[infer]]), d’en bas, d’une région inférieure : [poet.] Cic. Nat. 2, 114 ; Plin. 2, 128 &#124;&#124; des enfers, infernal : Virg. En. 6, 106 ; Tac. Ann. 2, 28 &#124;&#124; v. [[inferni]].||des enfers, infernal : Virg. En. 6, 106 ; Tac. Ann. 2, 28||v. [[inferni]].
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