- Lower - Lower (regions) - Under the surface - Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower
part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower;
under; -- opposed to upper.
- River in Hades - River in underworld - Underworld river - The principal river of the lower world, which had to be
crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
- Diabolical Lenin? Far out! - Hellish - Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions,
inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to
Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. - Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell;
suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell;
hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct. - An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place
itself.
- The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated
as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers
as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later
poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the
Lower World in general.