Styx

, a daughter of Ocean us and Tethys. She married Pallas, by whom she had three daughters, Victory, Strength, and Valour. Hesiod , Theogony , lis. 363 & 384.— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 2 .――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 the Great is mentioned as a victim to their fatal poison, in consequence of drinking them. They even consumed iron, and broke all ve els. The wonderful properties of this water suggested the idea that it was a river of hell, especially when it disappeared in the earth a little below its fountain head. The gods held the waters of the Styx in such veneration, that they always swore by them; an oath which was inviolable. If any of the gods had perjured themselves, Jupiter obliged them to drink the waters of the Styx, which lulled them for one whole year into a sensele stupidity; for the nine following years they were deprived of the ambrosia and the nectar of the gods, and after the expiration of the years of their punishment, they were restored to the a embly of the deities, and to all their original privileges. It is said that this veneration was shown to the Styx, because it received its name from the nymph Styx, who, with her three daughters, a isted Jupiter in his war against the Titans. Hesiod , Theogony , lis. 384, 775.— Homer , Ody ey , bk. 10 , li. 513 .— Hero dot us , bk. 6 , ch. 74 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , lis. 323, 439, . — Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 3 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 3 , li. 29 , . — Lucan , bk. 6 , li. 378 , . — Pausanias , bk. 8 , chs. 17 & 18.— Curtius , bk. 10 , ch. 10 .