Styx
[stiks]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which Charon carried dead souls.
Typist: Stanley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Editor: Lois
Examples
- The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. Plato. The Republic.
- Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Strange, and desolate above all things, like disembarking from the Styx into the desolated underworld, was this landing at night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Lancelot