Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Avernus , a lake ofCampania , inItaly , famous for itspoisonous vapors , which ancient writers fancied were somalignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with theinfernal regions.
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Examples
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I intend to join the Lucrine lake to the Avernian by digging several big canals.
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I intend to join the Lucrine lake to the Avernian by digging several big canals.
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Samnites conveyed their possessions into the Avernian [14] woods, so-called from the fact that on account of the closeness of the trees no bird flies into them.
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He commenced making a pond for the reception of all the hot streams from Baiae, which he designed to have continued from Misenum to the Avernian lake, in a conduit, enclosed in galleries; and also a canal from Avernum to Ostia, that ships might pass from one to the other, without a sea voyage.
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[438] Tartessus was an Iberian town, near the Avernian marshes, which were said to be tenanted by reptiles, the progeny of vipers and muraenae,
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I have said that in the Avernian Mountains was the centre of Gaul and the power upon which the history of Gaul depends.
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With her hair dishevelled, she then invoked Hecate, and sprinkling Avernian water and poisons on it, and casting thereon various love charms, she called the gods to witness that she was determined to die.
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Avernian vallies, or else that the grant will be revoked.
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I think players of Geist will find the material most useful; however, there are ways that any being in the World of Darkness can just, well, fall right through an Avernian Gate.
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But at last, having built a new fleet, and obtained twenty thousand manumitted slaves [123], who were given him for the oar, he formed the Julian harbour at Baiae, by letting the sea into the Lucrine and Avernian lakes; and having exercised his forces there during the whole winter, he defeated Pompey betwixt Mylae and Naulochus; although (80) just as the engagement commenced, he suddenly fell into such a profound sleep, that his friends were obliged to wake him to give the signal.
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