Vorâgo, pen. prod. vorâginis, pen. cor. f. g. Cicer.A swallow or gulfe: a whirlepoole: a quane mire that sucketh vp or swal. loweth.Atra vorago. Vir. Ima vorago. Ci. Ingens vorago faucibus vastis patet. Sen. Liudissima, maximéque profunda vorago. Catul. Pigra vorago. Sil. A quane mire sucking in slowly.Sinuosa vorago.Stat. Stagnans vorago. Sil. Tenebrosa vorago.Stat. Tenax. Catul. Graues & propemodum immobiles currus illuuie & voragine hærebant. Curt. The heauie loden cartes coulde not passe by reason of durte and quaue mires. Vorago patrimonij. C. A gluttonous waster and consumer of his heritage.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vŏrāgo, ĭnis, f. [voro], an abyss, gulf, whirlpool, depth, chasm.I.Lit., of watery depths: summersus equus voraginibus, Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73: vastāque voragine gurges Aestuat, Verg. A. 6, 296; Cat. 17, 26; Curt. 8, 14, 8: explicet se Cotta, si potest, ex hac voragine, Lact. 2, 8, 55.—Of a gulf or chasm in the earth, Liv. 7, 6, 1; Curt. 8, 14, 2.— Poet., of a devouring maw or stomach: ventris, Ov. M. 8, 843.—II.Transf.: vos geminae voragines scopulique rei publicae, i. e.