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Cocytus

NOUN
  1. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades that was said to be a tributary of the Acheron

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  • Now, granted, gNAW will get the rights to do a Teennuts manga when Hell freezes over (I mean the other parts, not Cocytus), so if your reaction matches that of quixoticals, you can just chillax cuz it ain't gonna happen anyway. C'mon, Tell Me This Isn't Awesome
  • _Table Talk_, July 23, 1827.] [352] [Caïna is the first belt of Cocytus, that is, circle ix. of the The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
  • The Blockbuster Video-sponsored circle, located in Nether Hell between the former eighth and ninth levels of Malebolge and Cocytus, is expected to greatly alleviate the overcrowding problems that have plagued the infernal underworld in recent years. Archive 2007-02-01
  • The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • Emerging from Cocytus dark and from Tartarus murky Satyricon
  • The Hebrew word, which St. Jerome has here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets represent as a river in hell,) signifies a valley or a torrent: and in this place, is taken for the low region of death and hell: which willingly, as it were, receives the wicked at their death: who are ushered in by innumerable others that have gone before them; and are followed by multitudes above number. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
  • Whom Cocytus 'deepest abysses obey, if to forecast Satyricon
  • Those that had done well, went to the elysian fields, but evil doers to Cocytus, and to that burning lake of [6399] hell with fire, and brimstone for ever to be tormented. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names which describe the world below — Cocytus and Styx, ghosts under the earth, and sapless shades, and any similar words of which the very mention causes a shudder to pass through the inmost soul of him who hears them. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • Deep cloven, and Cocytus churns there his current; the vapor Satyricon
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