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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Erebus

Darkness. The gloomy cavern underground through which the Shades had to walk in their passage to Hades. “A valley of the shadow of death.”

Not Erebus itself were dim enough
To hide thee from prevention.

Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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