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"The spirits beyond redemption, for the multitude of their murders or sacrileges, Fate hurls into Tartarus, whence they never any more come forth." But souls of lighter guilt abide a year in Tartarus, and then drift out down the streams Cocytus and Pyriphlegethon.
Midway all is muffled in forest, and the black coils of Cocytus circle it round. Yet if thy soul is so passionate and so desirous twice to float across the Stygian lake, twice to see dark Tartarus, and thy pleasure is to plunge into the mad task, learn what must first be accomplished.
You call Jupiter and Neptune Gods; their brother Pluto, then, is one; and if so, those rivers also are Deities which they say flow in the infernal regions Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; Charon also, and Cerberus, are Gods; but that cannot be allowed; nor can Pluto be placed among the Deities. What, then, will you say of his brothers?
I hope I was not wrong in accepting it, madam." "Wrong, little fool, assuredly not," said my Lady, laughing. "It is an ensign of victory. Why, child, you have made a conquest worthy of let me see. You, or the wits, could tell me who it was that stormed the very den of Cocytus and bore off the spoil!"
Thereby into Acheron flows Pyriphlegethon, and Cocytus, a branch of the water of the Styx, and there is a rock, and the meeting of the two roaring waters.
The Red River on the other hand, which we are accustomed to call the Nile of Louisiana with about as much right and propriety as the Massachusetts cobbler who christened his son Alexander Cæsar Napoleon sneaks stealthily along through forest and plain, like some lurking and venomous copper-snake. Cocytus would be a far better name for it.
"Seek no guide," she replied; "but raise you your mast, and hoist your white sails, and sit in your ship in peace: the north wind shall waft you through the seas, till you shall cross the expanse of the ocean, and come to where grow the poplar groves, and willows pale, of Proserpine: where Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus and Acheron mingle their waves. Cocytus is an arm of Styx, the forgetful river.
Envy to black Cocytus shall retire And howl with furies in tormenting fire. "Genius," says another authoritative writer in prose, "is caused by a furious joy and pride of soul."
'I have never had time to read his work, interrupted Ixion. 'What sort of a fellow is he? 'One of the most conceited dogs that I ever met with, replied the King. 'He thinks he is a great genius, and perhaps he has some little talent for the extravagant. 'Are there any critics in Hell? 'Myriads. They abound about the marshes of Cocytus, where they croak furiously.
The river is not, at that spot, the boastful highway which bears upon its broad bosom its thousands of travelers; nor are its waters black and troubled as those of Cocytus, as it boastfully asserts, "I, too, am cousin of the old ocean."
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