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LNS

Chaos, Chaos

(Chaus, Chaus)

Chaos, Chaus

Χάος

noun (n., indeclinable declension)

The boundless, empty space
the Lower World
immeasurable darkness, deep obscurity
The confused, formless, primitive mass out of which the universe was made, chaos

Abbreviations

Chaos or Chaus, abl. Chao (other cases not used in the class. per.; gen. Chai, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 664; dat. Chai, Prisc. p. 720 P.), n., = Χάος. The boundless, empty space; as the kingdom of darkness, the Lower World: ingens, Ov. M. 10, 30; 14, 404; id. Ib. 84: inane, id. F. 4, 600: caecum, Sen. Med. 741; Stat. Th. 12, 772; Val. Fl. 7, 402; impersonated, masc., god of the Lower World, father of Erebos and Nox, Verg. A. 4, 510 (acc. Chaos); 6, 265; Quint. 3, 7, 8; cf.: Janus... edidit hos sonos; me Chaos antiqui, nam sum res prisca, vocabant, Ov. F. 1, 103.

— Hence also, immeasurable darkness, deep obscurity: Cimmerium, Stat. S. 3, 2, 92: horridum, Prud. Cath. 5, 3.

— The confused, formless, primitive mass out of which the universe was made, chaos, Ov. M. 1, 7; 2, 299; Lact. 1, 5, 8; 2, 8, 8: a Chao, since the creation of the world, Verg. G. 4, 347.