chaos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Chaos, Chai:
Neuter · Noun
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Religion
Chaos, pit of Hell, underworld; formless/shapeless primordial matter;
acc. sg.nom. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Tartara lingua.'Eumenides Stygiumque nefas Poenaeque nocentum 695et Chaos innumeros auidum confundere mundoset rector terrae, quem longa..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...atque arduus axisintonuit motaque poli conpage laborant.extimuit natura chaos; rupisse uidenturconcordes elementa moras rursusque redire 635nox manes mixtura..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...solutasaecula tot mundi suprema coegerit horaantiquum repetens iterum chaos, [omnia mixtissidera sideribus concurrent,] ignea pontum 75astra petent, tellus..." - L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...rudibus nullus praecipitationis finis est; in Epicureum illud chaos decidunt, inane sine termino. Est adhuc genus tertium eorum..." - L
Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...magni decus; qui si senescit, tantus in caecum chaos casurus iterum, tunc adest mundo dies supremus ille..." - L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ruina quassata labent iterumque deos hominesque premat deforme chaos, iterum terras et mare cingens et uaga picti sidera..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...audior' uates ait, 'rata uerba fudi: rumpitur caecum chaos iterque populis Ditis ad superos datur.' Subsedit omnis silua..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...auferrem perfida uoces. iam nunc te per inane chaos, per Tartara, coniunx, si sunt ulla, sequar, quam longo..."