Acheron

[Lat. Acheron; Gr. ̓Αχέρων (Acheron): ἄχος ( achos ) = pain, distre ; ῥόος (rhoos) a stream; ῥέω (rheō) = to flow.] A fabled stream in the infernal regions. Some rivers belonging to this world bore the same IMG:content-0109.png:[graphic] name. "... behold black Acheron! Once consecrated to the sepulchre." Byron: Childe Harold, it. 51. "Get you gone, And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i' the morning; thither he Will come to know his destiny." Shakesp.: Macbeth, iii. 5. "And enter there the kingdoms void of day: Where Phlegethon's loud torrents, rushing down, Hi in the flaming gulf of Acheron ," Pope: Homer; Ody eyx. 607-609.