Cocytus
[Ko-kytus ]. One of the five rivers of hell. The word
means the “river of lamentation.” The unburied were doomed to wander
about its banks for 100 years. (Greek, koku'o, to weep.)
Cocytus, named of lamentation loud
Heard on the rueful stream.
Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 579.
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