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Definition of River cocytus
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades that was said to be a tributary of the Acheron.
Group relationships: Hades, Hell, Infernal Region, Netherworld, Scheol, Underworld
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of River Cocytus
Literary usage of River cocytus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania by Thomas Smart Hughes (1820)
"... Village of Potamia — river cocytus — Convent of St. George — Monastery of St.
John, on the Site of the ancient ..."
2. Springs and Wells in Greek and Roman Literature: Their Legends and Locations by James Reuel Smith (1922)
"At the side of this path a horrid Spring, a seething eddy, turbid and impure,
boiled'1 up with mire in a vast abyss and supplied the river Cocytus over ..."
3. Springs and Wells in Greek and Roman Literature: Their Legends and Locations by James Reuel Smith (1922)
"At the side of this path a horrid Spring, a seething eddy, turbid and impure,
boiled *2 up with mire in a vast abyss and supplied the river Cocytus over ..."
4. Dialogues of Plato: Containing The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, and by Plato (1899)
"The fourth river (Cocytus) is that which is called by the poets the Stygian river,
and falls into, and forms the lake Styx, receiving strange powers in the ..."
5. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1902)
"The fourth river (Cocytus) it that which is called by the poets the Stygian river,
and tails into, and tonus the lake Styx, receiving strange powers in the ..."
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