DEN Copy link • DENcavum (general term for any hole): caverna: spelunca. specus: and (poetically) spelaeum [SYN. in CAVERN]: latibulum (hiding-place of wild-beasts, etc.): lustra, plur. (dens of wild-beasts, ferarum in the poets; in prose-writers,” dens” for debauchery and other deeds of darkness): cublle (general term for sleeping-place; den, lair, etc.): to hide themselves in dens, latibulis se tegere; in cubilibus delitescere.