Averno
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Averno
from Latin, from Greek aornos without birds, from a- 1 + ornis bird; referring to the legend that the lake's sulphurous exhalations killed birds
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Paul Daniel conducts the initial performances, with Barbara Hannigan and Kerstin Averno sharing the title role.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2012
These words undoubtedly indicate the accomplishment of the "facilis descensus Averno" by the native deities.
From Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding
Tuesday the 17th the Committee had arranged an excursion to Lake Averno, the Temple of Serapis, and other places famous in a geological and historical respect, situated to the north-west of Naples.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Do you intend to restrict the family to the back stairs, which by your showing are, like the famous descensus Averno, wonderfully easy to go down, but mighty hard to get up again?
From Homes and How to Make Them by E. C. (Eugene Clarence) Gardner
The motto, "Facilis descensus Averno," etc, epitomises the whole story.
From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
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