Myth. Also 6 erron. erobus. [a. L. Erebus, a. Gr. Ἔρεβος; ? cogn. with Goth. riqis darkness.] The proper name of ‘a place of darkness, between Earth and Hades’ (Liddell and Scott); often used in phrase dark as Erebus.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., V. i. 87. His affections [are] darke as Erobus.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 883. Harsh Thunder … the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
1728. T. Cooke, trans. Hesiod’s Theogony, 202, II. 28.
| And Erebus, black Son, from Chaos came, | |
| Born with his Sister Night a sable Dame. |
1839. Marryat, Phant. Ship, I. x. 217. The night was dark as Erebus.
Comb. 1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 169.
| Since the pow’r that impell’d thee was Erebus bred, | |
| And the dun gloom of chaos usurp’d heart and head. |
