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ba-RUH-thruhm
noun
a bottomless hole; an abyss; a name for hell or the underworld in Greek mythology
1600Every Man In His HumourLOR. JU. Opinion, O God, let gross opinion sink and be damn'd As deep as Barathrum,1837Athens: Its Rise and FallIt had been a saying of Aristides, 'that if the Athenians desired their affairs to prosper, they ought to fling Themistocles and himself into the barathrum.' But fortune was satisfied at this time with a single victim, and reserved the other for a later sacrifice.1876Pausanias, the SpartanInstead of ostracising me, they should have cast both myself and Themistocles into the Barathrum.Labels: Ben Jonson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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