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‖ Phlegethon Gr. and Lat. Myth.|ˈflɛgɪθɒn, ˈflɛdʒ-|
Also 4 Flegeton, 6 Phlegeton.
[a. Gr. ϕλεγέθων, -οντ = lit. ‘burning, blazing’, hence as here.]
Name of a fabled river of fire, one of the five rivers of Hades.
1390Gower Conf. II. 164 He wolde swere his commun oth, Be Lethen and be Flegeton. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 50 Nor damned ghoste In flaming Phlegeton does not so felly roste. 1701tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers (1702) 299 T'is certain, that the Pagans, who first used the word Phlegethon, denoted by it not a River of the Elysian Fields..but of Hell and the Place of Torments. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Behaviour Wks. (Bohn) II. 391 No phlegethon could be found that would burn him.
Hence phlegeˈthontal, phlegeˈthontic adjs., of or pertaining to Phlegethon; burning, fiery.
1600Tourneur Transf. Metam. Prol., To feele the smart of Phlegetontike sight. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 34 Blaz'd with phlegethontal fires. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋121 Phlegetontal and direfull evils. 1821Byron Juan iv. liii, Cogniac! Sweet Naïad of the Phlegethontic rill! |
