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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
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Styx
- (Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
- Coordinate terms: Acheron, Cocytus, Eridanus, Lethe, Phlegethon
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:
- A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):
- For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.
- 2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:
- Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone
- (astronomy) The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
- A locality in the Derwent Valley council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.
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river of the underworld
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