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Acheron (ăk`ərŏn): see Hades 1 The ruler of the underworld: see Pluto . 2 The world of the dead, ruled by Pluto and Persephone, located either underground or in the far west beyond the inhabited regions. ..... Click the link for more information. . Acheron river of woe in the underworld. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 5] See : Melancholy How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For my panacea, instead of one of those quack vials of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which come out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we sometimes see made to carry bottles, let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. You will find it near the place where the rivers Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus (which is a branch of the river Styx) flow into Acheron, and you will see a rock near it, just where the two roaring rivers run into one another. It was about midnight when we cycled through Kingston to Surbiton, having trundled our machines across Ham Fields, mournful in the mist as those by Acheron, and so over Teddington Bridge. |
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