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COCYTUS (mod. Vuvo)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 632 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COCYTUS (mod. Vuvo)  , a tributary of the
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Acheron, a
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river of Thesprotia (mod. pashalik of Iannina), which flows into the Ionian Sea about 20 M . N. of the Gulf of Arta . The name is also applied in Greek
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mythology to a tributary of the Acheron or of the
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Styx, a river in Hades . The etymology suggested is from KwId f ', to wail, in allusion to the cries of the dead . Virgil describes it as the river which surrounds the underworld (Aen . Vi . 132) .

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