Avernian
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
Pertaining to
Avernus, a lake of
Campania in Italy, famous for its poisonous qualities, which the poets represent as so
malignant, as to kill fowls flying over. Hence, as authors tell us, its name, without birds.
Avernian
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Of or pertaining to
Avernus, a lake of
Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers
fancied were so
malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the
infernal regions.
