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1. (n.) Avernus
a lake in the caldera of a volcano near Naples, Italy, regarded in ancient times as the entrance to the underworld.
2. Avernus
the underworld.
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1. avernus
a deep lake in Italy, near Naples, 1½ m. in circumference, occupying the crater of an extinct volcano, at one time surrounded by a dark wood, and conceived, from its gloomy appearance, as well as from the mephitic vapours it exhaled, to be the entrance to the infernal world, and identified with it.
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