Cocytus
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streams of Cocytus · the roaring of Cocytus
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Tusculan Disputations
River of the underworld in Greco-Roman myth, associated with wailing.
do those things terrify you — the three-headed Cerberus among the dead, the roaring of Cocytus, the ferrying across Acheron, Tantalus touching the surface of the water with his chin yet wasted with thirst;
Alcestis
A river of the underworld named by the Chorus in its wish to retrieve Alcestis from Hades.
Would it were in my power and range to bring thee to the light from the chambers of Hades and the streams of Cocytus with the oar that sweeps yon nether flood!
Odyssey
A river of the underworld, described as a branch of the Styx.
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.
Phaedo
The name given by the poets to the river formed from the Stygian waters, used as the route by which homicides are expelled from Tartarus.
And the name of this river, as the Poets say, is Cocytus.
Those, however, who are curable, but are found to have committed great sins—who have, for example, in a moment of passion done some act of violence against father or mother and have lived in repentance the rest of their lives, or who have slain some other person under similar conditions—these must needs be thrown into Tartarus, and when they have been there a year the wave casts them out, the homi …
Republic
River of lamentation in the underworld, named among the vocabulary of terror to be prohibited.
Then we must further taboo in these matters the entire vocabulary of terror and fear, Cocytus named of lamentation loud, abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate, the people of the infernal pit and of the charnel-house, and all other terms of this type, whose very names send a shudder through all the hearers every year.