vorāgo, inis, f. voro, an abyss, gulf, whirlpool, depth, chasm. Lit., of watery depths: summersus equus voraginibus, Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73: vastāque voragine gurges Aestuat, Verg. A. 6, 296; Cat. 17, 26; Curt. 8, 14, 8: explicet se Cotta, si potest, ex hac voragine, Lact. 2, 8, 55.

—Of a gulf or chasm in the earth, Liv. 7, 6, 1; Curt. 8, 14, 2.

— Poet., of a devouring maw or stomach: ventris, Ov. M. 8, 843.

— Transf.: vos geminae voragines scopulique rei publicae, i. e. gulfs, Cic. Pis. 18, 41: gurges et vorago patrimonii, devourer, squanderer, spendthrift, id. Sest. 52, 111: vorago aut gurges vitiorum, abyss, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23: avaritia, manifestae praedae avidissima vorago, abyss, gulf, Val. Max. 9, 4 init.