infernal Copy link Outline 1. infernus2. Tartăreus (poet.) • infernal: 1. infernus: the i. deities, inf. Dii, Liv.: Virg.: i. appearance, [velut] inf. aspectus, Tac. G. 43. 2. Tartăreus (poet.): Virg.: Ov.: Lucan. The i. regions, (1). infĕri, orum: in the i. regions, ad inf., Cic. Ph. 14, 12, 32; apud inferos, id. Tusc. 1, 5, 10. (2). mānes, ium, m. (strictly, the shades of the deceased: poet.): the unfathomable i. regions, m. profundi, Virg. G. 1, 243. (3). Tartărus, pl. -a (poet.): Virg.: Ov. (passim). (4). Orcus (strictly a name of Pluto): Virg. Aen. 6, 273: in Aen. 2, 398, demittimus Orco, the word is used personally. See also grave (subs. II.).