Cocytus

"River of lamentation." One of the five rivers of the underworld. The unburied were doomed to wander about its banks for a hundred years. It flows into the river Acheron. The other rivers are the Styx, the Phlegethon, and the Lethe.

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References

Source

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.