Avernus

Avernus adj.

, ἄορνος(prop., birdless, because its exhalations destroyed life). — Hence (with or without lacus): Avernus, a lake near Cumae, the fabled entrance to the lower world, C., V., L.—Of Lake Avernus: freta, portus, V.—Of the lower world, infernal: stagna, V.: Iuno, i. e. Proserpina, O.—Plurn., the region about Avernus, V., O.—The lower world, V.