place
Acheron
also: Acherusia templa
River and region of the underworld; here "the regions of Acheron" stand for the abode of the dead that Ennius described and that Epicurean physics denies.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §4.2 Acheron
A river of the underworld, here standing for the realm of the dead; Lucretius invokes it only to deny that the dead return.
- On the Nature of Things §6.6 Acheron
A river of the underworld, used by Lucretius for the realm of the dead generally; here only as a figure for utter darkness, not a literal place.