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Alternative forms

• Phlegeton

Proper noun

Phlegethon

1. (Greek mythology) A river of fire in Hades.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.2:

     Firebrand of **** first tynd in Phlegeton, / By thousand furies, and from thence out throwen / Into this world, to worke confusion, / And set it all on fire by force vnknowen / Is wicked discord [...].

Coordinate terms

• Acheron, Cocytus, Eridanos, Lethe, Styx

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