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cocytus
/koʊˈsaɪtəs/
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What does cocytus mean?
proper noun
- A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
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/koʊˈsaɪtəs/
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/koʊˈkaɪtəs/
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Hence to deep Acheron they take their way, Whose troubled eddies, thick with ooze and clay, Are whirl’d aloft, and in Cocytus lost.
And accursed Envy there Shall dread the Furies, and thy ruthless flood, Cocytus, and Ixion's twisted snakes, And that vast wheel and ever-baffling stone.
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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.
O brother, help me with thy fainting hand, If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath, Out of this fell devouring receptacle, As hateful as Cocytus’ misty mouth.