| Erebus 1. (n.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See line 883. 2. (n.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus. Thesaurus Entries Aides, Aidoneus, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Egyptian darkness, Hades, Hel, Kore, Loki, Minos, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, blackness, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, intense darkness, lightlessness, moonlessness, night, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, starlessness, sunlessness, swarthiness, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, velvet darkness |