abyss Copy link Outline 1. bărathrum (poet.)2. gurges, ĭtis, m. (prop. a raging a., a whirlpool)3. prŏfundum (fig.).4. vŏrāgo, ĭnis, f. (a devouring a.) • abyss: 1. bărathrum (poet.): the glowing a. (of Etna), candens b., Sil.: the frightful a. (of Tartarus), immane b., Virg.: Pl. Fig.: to throw into an a. (i.e. squander) whatever you possess, barathro donare quidquid habes, Hor. 2. gurges, ĭtis, m. (prop. a raging a., a whirlpool): the turbid a. seethes with mire, turbidus coeno aestuat g., Virg.: from the deep a., g. ab alto, Virg.: often used fig.: to pour one's wealth into an utterly bottomless a. of lusts, divitias in profundissimum libidinum g. profundere, Cic.: that a. (i. e. profligate spendthrift), and glutton, ille g. atque heluo, Cic. 3. prŏfundum (fig.).: blame nature, which, as Democritus says, has utterly concealed truth in an a., naturam accusa, quae in profundo veritatem, ut ait Democritus, penitus abstruserit, Cic.: an a. of wretchedness, p. miseriarum, Val. Max. 4. vŏrāgo, ĭnis, f. (a devouring a.): the horse sunk in the a.s, submersus est equus voraginibus, Cic.: Virg. Fig.: an a. or gulf of vices, vorago aut gurges vitiorum, Cic.