 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...systematic nime of the tree which affords the solid styrax. 5«e STYRAX. STYTHY. ra To forge on an antil. i STYX, a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose...river of hell, especially when it disappeared in the earth a little below ii> fountain head. The gods always swore by the Styx, an oath if any of the gods... | |
 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...infernal regions, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers, the Styx was a small river in Arcadia, whose waters were so cold and venomous, that '.they proved fatal to such as drank.lt is fabled, that the god» held the waters of the Styx in such veneration, that the oath which... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers the Styx was a small liver of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters were so cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to such as tasted them. They even cousumed iron, and hroke all vessels. The wonderful properties of this water... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1838 - 818 pages
...a celebrated river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers the Styx was a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters...cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to such as tasted them. Among others Alexander the Great is mentioned as a victim to their fatal poison, in consequence... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1839 - 814 pages
...a celebrated river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers the Styx was a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters...cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to such as tasted them. Among others Alexander the Great is mentioned as a victim to their fatal poison, in consequence... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1839 - 810 pages
...celebrated river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers the Styx was a sui!ill river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters were so...cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to such as tasted them. Among others Alexander the Great is mentioned as a victim to their fatal poison, in consequence... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Mythology, Classical - 1849 - 516 pages
...this river formed a draught that was fatal even to the gods. According to some writers, the Styx was a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters were so cold and poisonous as to be fatal to all who tasted them. Among others, Alexander the Great is mentioned as... | |
 | Agnes Smith (writer on mythology.) - Mythology, Classical - 1851 - 346 pages
...alleys of this melancholy wood. * According to some writers, the Styx was a small river of Nonacrisj in Arcadia, whose waters were so cold and venomous that they proved fatal to such as drank them. They even consumed iron, and broke all vessels. The wonderlu! properties of this water suggested... | |
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STYX, a celebrated river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers the Styx was a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters were so cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to such as tasted them. Among others Alexander... 