Inferi

Latin-English

infĕr|ī, -ōrum. masc. plur.

1. The inhabitants of the underworld; the dead.

[inferus.]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.43:

Age porro: Iovem et Neptunum deum numeras; ergo etiam Orcus frater eorum deus, et illi, qui fluere apud inferos dicuntur, Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; tum Charon, tum Cerberus di putandi.

Come on, then: Jupiter and Neptune you count as a god; therefore, Orcus their brother is also a god, as are those who are said to flow in the underworld—Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; and then Charon, and then Cerberus should be considered gods.