Phlegethon definitions

Phlegethon

In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon (Φλεγέθων, English translation: `flaming`) or Pyriphlegethon (Πυριφλεγέθων, English translation: `fire-flaming`) was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron. Plato describes it as `a stream of fire, wh...
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Phlegethon

• (n.) One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.
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Phlegethon

the underworld River of Flame.
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Phlegethon

In Greek mythology, a river of fire encircling the underworld, or Hades, and emptying into Lake Acheron. ...
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Phlegethon

Phleg'e·thon noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., propast participle pr. of ... to blaze.] (Class Myth.) One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water. « Fierce Phlegethon , Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.» Milto...
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