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styx
/stɪks/
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What does styx mean?
proper noun
- The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
- The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
- A locality in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/stɪks/
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The Thund’rer said, And shook the sacred honours of his head, Attesting Styx, th’ inviolable flood, And the black regions of his brother god.
Still in the dawnlit waters cool His ghostly Lordship swims his pool, And tries the strokes, essays the tricks, Long learnt on Hellespont, or Styx.
More book examples (3)
Indeed, I began seriously to doubt if this stream whereon we floated, whose waters plashed and tinkled about us, were the Thames, the Tigris, or the Styx.
Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx, I would swim after.
He fully shared the opinion of those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, and who place a Styx at the base of society.