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Acheron

Acheron · m

the stream of woe

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Where it lives

Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Thebais 6 · 0.96/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Aeneid 5 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăchĕron — Lewis & Short

ăchĕron, ntis (collat. form Acheros, m., = *)axe/rwn (interpr. o( a)/xea r(e/wn,

Liv. 8, 24, 11; the form Acheruns, untis, see below),

I the stream of woe).

I A river in Epirus, which flows through the Lake Acherusia into the Ambracian Gulf, now Suli, Liv. 8, 24, 3; Plin. 4, 1, 1, § 4.—

II A fabulous river in the Lower World: illi qui fluere apud inferos dicuntur, Acheron, Cocytus, Styx, etc., Cic. N. D. 3, 17: via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas, Verg. A., 6, 295 al.—Hence,

B The Lower World itself: Acherontem obibo, ubi mortis thesauri objacent, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 201 Müll. (Trag. v. 278 ed. Vahl.): flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo, Verg. A. 7, 312: perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor, Hor. C. 1, 3, 36. In prose: ut eum suo sanguine ab Acheronte, si possent, cuperent redimere, Nep. Dion. 10, 2.—Hence, ăchĕrontēus, a, um, adj., pertaining to the Acheron, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 351.

In the wild

Acheron Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.1.p3
Acheron Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.17
Acheron Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.43
Acheronte Vergil, Aeneid 11.23
Acheronte Seneca, Octavia 1
Acheronte Cicero, Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 25

6 of 43 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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