Avernus
[ə'və:nəs]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. (Mythol.) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below.
Typist: Silvia
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The lake by which the ancients entered the infernal regions. The fact that access to the infernal regions was obtained by a lake is believed by the learned Marcus Ansello Scrutator to have suggested the Christian rite of baptism by immersion. This however has been shown by Lactantius to be an error.
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