ἔρεβος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό: Att. gen. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> Ἐρέβους <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>694</span>, Ion. [[Ἐρέβευς]] <span class="bibl">Il.8.368</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.11.37</span>, [[Ἐρέβεσφιν]] or [[Ἐρέβευσφιν]], <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>669</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Cer.</span>349</span>, ἐξ Ἐρεβ- <span class="bibl">Il.9.572</span>: no dat. or pl. occurs:—[[Erebos]], a [[place]] of [[nether]] [[darkness]], forming a passage from Earth to [[Hades]], <span class="bibl">Il.16.327</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.10.528</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>515</span>, etc.; rare in Prose, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ax.</span>371e</span>, Plu.2.953a, 1130d: metaph., ἔρεβος [[ὕφαλος|ὕφαλον]] = the [[darkness]] of the [[deep]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>589</span>(lyr.); of a [[riddle]], ἀξυνέτοις ἔ. <span class="title">AP</span>7.429 (Alc.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> personified, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span> 125</span>. (Skt. rájas, Goth. riqis, ONorse røkkr '[[darkness]]'.)</span>