Acheron
Acheron, [Greek 
; as if 
, the stream of woe, or from privative and 
, to rejoice, the joyless stream.] (Greek & Roman Mythology.) A son of Sol and Terra, changed into a river in hell; sometimes used in a general sense to designate hell itself.
Abhorrèd Styx, the flood of deadly hate,
Sad Acheron, of sorrow black and deep.
--Milton.
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Acheron, the "River of Grief," and one of the five river of hell; hell itself. (Greek, 
, "I flow with grief.")
Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep.
--Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 578 (1665).
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