273. OF DEEP AVERNUS HOLE. Avernus in the poets is a cavern (in an ancient crater), supposed to be the entrance to the infernal regions. Cf. Vergil's _Æneid_, vi, 237. In Strabo's Geography it is a lake in Campania.
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273. OF DEEP AVERNUS HOLE. Avernus in the poets is a cavern (in an ancient crater), supposed to be the entrance to the infernal regions. Cf. Vergil's _Æneid_, vi, 237. In Strabo's Geography it is a lake in Campania.