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Ἔρεβος , τό : Att. gen.
A.“Ἐρέβους” Ar.Av.694, Ion. “Ἐρέβευς” Il.8.368, Od.11.37, Ἐρέβεσφιν or Ἐρέβευσφιν, Hes.Th.669, h.Cer.349, “ἐξ Ἐρεβ-” Il.9.572 : no dat. or pl. occurs:—Erebos, a place of nether darkness, forming a passage from Earth to Hades, Il.16.327, Od.10.528, al., Hes.Th.515, etc. ; rare in Prose, Pl.Ax.371e, Plu.2.953a, 1130d : metaph., ἔ. ὕφαλον the darkness of the deep, S.Ant.589(lyr.) ; of a riddle, “ἀξυνέτοις ἔ.” AP7.429 (Alc.).
II. personified, Hes.Th. 125. (Skt. rájas, Goth. riqis, ONorse røkkr 'darkness'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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