Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Phlegethon.
Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas.
1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 2342 more examples
Firebrand of hell 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, […]
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 21Carefully walking along a path skirting the burning sand, Vergil and his ward come to a spot where a rivulet, boiling and red, issues from the wood. It is the Phlegeton, the third of the infernal rivers.
1904, Adolphus T[homas] Ennis, chapter XIV, in Introduction to Dante’s Inferno, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, →OCLC, page 50
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