Chăŏs | Chăus (noun N) : or , abl. Chao (other cases not used in the class. per.;
* Gen. Chaï, Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 664; dat. Chaï, Prisc. p. 720 P.), n., = Χάος.
* The boundless, empty space; as the kingdom of darkness, the Lower World: ingens,Ov. M. 10, 30; 14, 404; id. Ib. 84: inane,id. F. 4, 600: caecum,Sen. Med. 741; Stat. Th. 12, 772; Val. Fl. 7, 402; impersonated,masc., god of the Lower World, father of Erebos and Nox,Verg. A. 4, 510 (acc. Chaos); 6, 265; Quint. 3, 7, 8; cf.: Janus... edidit hos sonos; me Chaos antiqui, nam sum res prisca, vocabant,Ov. F. 1, 103.
* Hence also, immeasurable darkness, deep obscurity: Cimmerium,Stat. S. 3, 2, 92: horridum,Prud. Cath. 5, 3.
* The confused, formless, primitive mass out of which the universe was made, chaos, Ov. M. 1, 7; 2, 299; Lact. 1, 5, 8; 2, 8, 8: a Chao,since the creation of the world,Verg. G. 4, 347.

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