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  • 1 vorago

    chasm, pit, abyss.

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  • 2 barathrum

        barathrum ī, n, βάρατηρον, an abyss, chasm, gulf, pit:v inmane, V.: imus barathri gurges, V.: barathro donare alqd, i. e. throw away, H.—Of a greedy man: barathrum macelli, an abyss of the butcher's stall, H.
    * * *
    abyss, chasm, pit; the infernal region, the underworld

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  • 3 specus

        specus ūs, m or (poet.) n    [SPEC-], a natural cavity, cave, cavern, grot, den, chasm, channel, pit: ex opaco specu fons, L.: virgis densus, O.: horrendum, V.: quos agor in specūs? H.— An artificial cavity, excavation, ditch, canal, channel, pit: paucos specūs in extremo fundo, et eos, etc., ditches: subterraneos specūs aperire, pits, Ta.— A hollow, cavity: atri volneris, V.: Capacis alvi, Ph.
    * * *
    cave, abyss, chasm; hole, pit; hollow (of any kind); grotto

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  • 4 vorāgō

        vorāgō inis, f    [voro], an abyss, gulf, whirlpool, depth, chasm: submersus equus voraginibus: vastāque voragine gurges Aestuat, V.: neque eam voraginem coniectu terrae expleri potuisse, L.: ventris, O.—Fig.: vos geminae voragines scopulique rei p.: patrimoni, spendthrift: vitiorum, abyss.
    * * *
    deep hole, chasm, watery hollow

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  • 5 vorago

    vŏrāgo, ĭnis, f. [voro], an abyss, gulf, whirlpool, depth, chasm.
    I.
    Lit., of watery depths:

    summersus equus voraginibus,

    Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73:

    vastāque voragine gurges Aestuat,

    Verg. A. 6, 296; Cat. 17, 26; Curt. 8, 14, 8:

    explicet se Cotta, si potest, ex hac voragine,

    Lact. 2, 8, 55.—Of a gulf or chasm in the earth, Liv. 7, 6, 1; Curt. 8, 14, 2.— Poet., of a devouring maw or stomach:

    ventris,

    Ov. M. 8, 843.—
    II.
    Transf.:

    vos geminae voragines scopulique rei publicae,

    i. e. gulfs, Cic. Pis. 18, 41:

    gurges et vorago patrimonii,

    devourer, squanderer, spendthrift, id. Sest. 52, 111:

    vorago aut gurges vitiorum,

    abyss, id. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23:

    avaritia, manifestae praedae avidissima vorago,

    abyss, gulf, Val. Max. 9, 4 init.

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  • 6 profundum

        profundum ī, n    [profundus], a depth: esse in profundo (aquae): maris, O.— The depths of the sea, deep sea: ex profundo molem ad caelum erigit, Att. ap. C.: profundo Vela dabit, V.: genitor profundi, i. e. Neptune, O.: Merses profundo (gentem), H.—Fig., a depth, abyss: (dixit) in profundo veritatem esse demersam.
    * * *
    depths, abyss, chasm; boundless expanse

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  • 7 chasma

    chasm/fissure/opening in earth, abyss; supposed meteoric phenomenon

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  • 8 faux

    pharynx (usu pl.), gullet/throat/neck/jaws/maw; narrow pass/shaft/strait; chasm

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  • 9 profundum

    a depth, abyss, chasm / the sea.

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  • 10 barathrum

    bărā̆thrum, i, n., = barathron, an abyss, chasm, a deep pit, the Lower World (mostly poet; cf.

    vorago),

    Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 12:

    o barathrum ubi nunc es? ut ego te usurpem lubens (words of one in despair),

    id. Bacch. 1, 2, 41; Lucr. 3, 966; Cat. 68, 108; 68, 117; 95, 5.—Esp., of the infernal regions:

    ferri in barathrum,

    Lucr. 6, 606:

    imus barathri gurges (Charybdis),

    Verg. A. 3, 421; 8, 245; Sil. 9, 497:

    poena barathri,

    Val. Fl. 2, 86; a pit made by art, a deep dungeon, Vitr. 10, 22, 11.—
    B.
    Trop.: quid enim differt, barathrone Dones quidquid habes, an numquam utare paratis? thou throwest into the abyss, i. e. squanderest, Hor. S. 2, 3, 166.—
    II.
    Transf.
    A.
    Jocosely or satirically, a maw (as insatiable), Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 29; Mart. 1, 88, 4.—Hence Horace calls a greedy man barathrum macelli, an abyss, gulf of the provision market, Ep. 1, 15, 31.—
    B.
    In mal. part., Mart. 3, 81, 1.

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  • 11 chasma

    chasma, ătis, n., = chasma, an opening of the earth, a chasm, abyss, Sen. Q. N. 6, 9, 2; Dig. 4, 4, 11; 50, 15, 4; 18, 6, 10.—
    II.
    A kind of meteor:

    sunt chasmata, cum aliquod caeli spatium desedit et flammam velut dehiscens in abdito ostentat,

    Sen. Q. N. 1, 14, 1; Plin. 2, 26, 26, § 96; Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 20.

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  • 12 eluvies

    ēlŭvĭes, em, e, f. [eluo], a washing away of impurities, a flowing off, discharge.
    I.
    Lit., Plin. 2, 82, 84, § 197; Pall. 1, 40, 4; Juv. 3, 32: ventris, Lucil. ap. Non. 103, 33; Aur. Vict. Epit. 9 fin. —
    II.
    In gen., an overflowing, an inundation of a river, etc.:

    eluvie mons est deductus in aequor,

    Ov. M. 15, 267; Tac. A. 13, 57.—
    B.
    Meton., a chasm, abyss, ravine produced by the violent rushing of water, Curt. 5, 4 fin. (shortly before: vorago concursu cavata torrentium); 6, 4 fin. —In plur. (with voragines), id. 8, 11.—
    III.
    Trop., of a ruinous law:

    ad illam labem atque eluviem civitatis pervenire,

    Cic. Dom. 20, 53 fin.

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  • 13 lacuna

    lăcūna (collateral form lŭcūna; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. vol. 2, p. 205; lăcūnā-tūra, App. Flor. 15, p. 351, 2 Hildebrand; v. infra), ae, f. [lacus], a ditch, pit, hole; esp. a place where water collects, a pool, pond.
    I.
    Lit. (mostly poet.): lacuna, id est aquae collectio, a lacu derivatur, quam alii lamam, alii lustrum dicunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 117 Müll.:

    vastae,

    Lucr. 6, 552:

    vastae Orci,

    id. 1, 116; 6, 538:

    cavae,

    Verg. G. 1, 117; 3, 365.— Poet.:

    salsae,

    i. e. the sea, Lucr. 5, 794; 3, 1044; also,

    Neptuniae,

    Auct. Her. 4, 10, 15:

    caecas lustravit luce lacunas,

    Cic. Arat. 431.—
    B.
    In gen., a hollow, cavity, opening, chasm, cleft:

    cum supercilia cana, et sub ea lacunae, dicunt, eum equum habere annos sedecim,

    Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 3; 1, 29, 3; cf.:

    atque lacunarum fuerant vestigia cuique,

    Lucr. 5, 1261; Vitr. 7, 1, 4:

    labrum superius sub ipsa medietate narium lacuna quadam levi, quasi valle, signavit deus,

    Lact. Op. D. 10:

    genae teretes ac medio mento lacuna,

    a dimple, App. Flor. p. 351 (Hildebr., lacunatura).—
    II.
    Trop., a gap, void, defect, want, loss (rare but class.):

    est, qui expleas duplicem istam lacunam,

    to fill up the double void, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 28:

    ut illam lacunam rei familiaris expleant,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 138:

    lacuna in auro,

    id. Att. 12, 6, 1:

    illa labes et quasi lacuna famae,

    Gell. 1, 3, 23.

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  • 14 rupina

    rūpīna, ae,f. [rupes], a cleft of a rock, a rocky chasm (Appuleian), App. M. 6, p. 184, 16; 7, p. 193 fin.; id. Flor. 2, p. 348 med.

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  • 15 specus

    spĕcus, ūs ( abl. plur. specibus, Sen. Cons. ap. Front. Aquaed. 125; on the various forms found only in the grammarians, v. Neue, Formenl. 1, 569 sq.), m. (f. and n. v. infra) [perh. root spec-; v. specio, and so orig. a hole, aperture; but cf. speos].
    I.
    Lit., a cave, cavern, grot, den; a cavity, chasm, natural or artificial; of the latter kind, a ditch, drain, canal, channel, covered water-course, a pit in mines, etc. (cf. spelunca).
    (α).
    Masc. (class. and freq.): inferum vastos specus, Enn. ap. Non. 222, 32 (Trag. v. 218 Vahl.):

    specus tenebricosus,

    Varr. ib. 222, 31:

    fons ex opaco specu,

    Liv. 1, 21; so abl. sing., id. 1, 56, 10; 10, 10, 1:

    forum medium ferme specu vasto collapsum dicitur,

    id. 7, 6; so sing., Ov. M. 3, 29; 7, 409; 11, 235; id. F. 4, 495; Liv. 10, 1, 5; Tac. A. 16, 1, 3; 16, 4, 59.— Plur.:

    quos agor in specus?

    Hor. C. 3, 25, 2: paucos specus in extremo fundo, et eos quidem subterraneos, * Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4; so of drains, ditches, Varr. R. R. 3, 17 fin.; Cat. 61, 28; Liv. 39, 13, 13; Tac. A. 12, 57; id. G. 16; Sen. Med. 741 al.—
    (β).
    Fem. (ante- and post-class.): concava specus, Enn. ap. Non. 222, 23 (Ann. v. 420 Vahl.); cf. Serv. Verg. A. 7, 568; Pac. ap. Non. 223, 2 Müll. (Trag. p. 91 Rib.); id. ap. Fest. p. 343 Müll. (l. l. p. 73 Rib.):

    specum quandam nactus remotam latebrosamque, in eam me penetro et recondo,

    Gell. 5, 14, 18; Sil. 6, 276.—
    (γ).
    Neutr. (anteclass. and poet.):

    hic specus horrendum,

    Verg. A. 7, 568;

    Serv. ad loc.: invisum caelo specus,

    Sil. 13, 425; Ps.-Quint. Decl. 10, 19.—
    (δ).
    Acc. to the second declension: speca apposita, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 713 P.: altis claudere specis, Att. ap. Non. 487, 25 (Fragm. Trag. v. 63 Rib.).—
    II.
    Transf., a hollow, cavity of any kind ( poet.):

    specus atri vulneris,

    Verg. A. 9, 700 Serv.:

    quos Capacis alvi mersit tartareo specu,

    Phaedr. 4, 6, 10;

    of a snake's belly,

    Sil. 6, 276; cf.

    of the belly of the Trojan horse, Petr. poët. 89, 2, 7.— In mal. part.,

    Auct. Priap. 83, 34.

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  • 16 voratrina

    vŏrātrīna, ae, f. [id.].
    * I.
    An eatinghouse, Tert. Apol. 39.—
    II.
    A gulf, abyss, chasm:

    terrarum,

    Amm. 17, 7, 13.

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  • 17 voratus

    vŏrātus, ūs, m. [id.].
    I.
    The devouring, destruction (late Lat.), Jul. ap. Aug. c. Sec. Resp. Jul. 5, 4.—
    II.
    A chasm, Facund. Def. 12, 3.

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