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n. A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
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Cocytus or Kokytos, meaning "the river of wailing" (from the Greek Κωκυτός, "lamentation"), is a river in the underworld in Greek mythology. Cocytus flows into the river Acheron, across which is the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead. There are five rivers encircling Hades. The River Styx is perhaps the most famous; the other rivers are Phlegethon, Lethe and Acheron.
Usage examples of "cocytus".
Lucifer is pure dumbness when Dante finally meets him in frozen Cocytus, sobbing and mute.
Hell: a frozen lake of ice, Cocytus, slick as glass, with a thickness found not even on the river Charles in the dead of winter.
For as surely as Cocytus rotated on its axis, they would have chosen a different path into the future.
Low drew back his hand and watched as the globe of Cocytus shrank back down to the size of a marble.
Had you been presented with all of Cocytus to explore, it is likely you would not have found the key to the Eye.
Then Venus spake unto Psyches againe saying : Seest thou the toppe of yonder great Hill, from whence there runneth downe waters of blacke and deadly colour, which nourisheth the floods of Stix, Cocytus?
Dante's descent into the final round of Hell: a frozen lake of ice, Cocytus, slick as glass, with a thickness found not even on the river Charles in the dead of winter.
Others affirm, and this report prevails, That with Pirithous to the world below He went, and saw the shores of dark Cocytus, Showing himself alive to the pale ghosts.
We're giving you a 'milkrun,' a minimal hassle, minimal risk profilebut also a mission of maximum importance from Da Vinci to Cocytus Station on Pluto and back again.
Transit time should be eighteen weeks Outbound, two weeks in Pluto orbit while your passengers pull the data packs from the automatic monitors at Cocytus, another eighteen Inbound.
Those again who have committed crimes, which, although great, are not unpardonable--who in a moment of anger, for example, have done violence to a father or a mother, and have repented for the remainder of, their lives, or, who have taken the life of another under the like extenuating circumstances--these are plunged into Tartarus, the pains of which they are compelled to undergo for a year, but at the end of the year the wave casts them forth--mere homicides by way of Cocytus, parricides and matricides by Pyriphlegethon--and they are borne to the Acherusian lake, and there they lift up their voices and call upon the victims whom they have slain or wronged, to have pity on them, and to receive them, and to let them come out of the river into the lake.