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Cocytus

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Cocytus (kōsī` təs): see Hades 1 The ruler of the underworld: see Pluto .

2 The world of the dead, ruled by Pluto and Persephone, located either underground or in the far west beyond the inhabited regions.
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Cocytus
Hadean river where unburied were doomed to roam for 100 years. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 210]
See : Wandering

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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.
 
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