erebia

[Lat. Erebus; Gr. Erebos = the place of nether darkne .] [EREBUS.] Entom.: A genus of Butterflies, family Satyride. Erebia epiphron is the Small Ringlet. It is of a sepia-brown color, with black spots, and occurs in Cumber land and in Ireland. The caterpillar feeds on gra . The perfect insect appears in June and July. ( Newman .) Ěr'-ě-bus, s . [Lat., from Gr. Erebos .] Mythol.: A deity of hell-the son of Chaos and Darkne ; he married his sister Night, and was the father of Light and Day. The word was used for the gloomy region in the Lower World, distinguished both from Tartar us, the place of torment, and Elysium, the region of bli . Hence it was used later for the Lower World generally; hell, hades. "Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. IMG:content-1112.png:[blocks in formation] 1688 *5. To raise or set up as a consequence from premises. B. In trans.: To rise upright; to become erect. "The trifoile against raine swelleth in the stalk; and so standeth more upright: for by wet stalks doe erect , and leaves bow downe."-Bacon: Natural Hist ., § 827. For the difference between to erect and to build , see BUILD; for that between to erect and to institute , see INSTITUTE; and for that between to erect and to lift , see LIFT.