Ĕr'e-bŭs, n.

n. [Lat. Erebus, Gr. Ἔρεβος, allied to Heb. ereb, evening, the decline of the sun, whence darkness, blackness.] (Myth.) The region of the dead; a deep and gloomy place; hell.

To the infernal deep, with Erebus and vile tortures. Shak.

As when the wrath of Jove Speaks thunder and the chains of Erebus. Milton.