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‖ Styx Myth.|stɪks|
In 4 Stige, 6 Styxe, 6–7 Stix.
[L. Styx, a. Gr. στύξ (στυγ-) related to στυγεῖν to hate, στυγνός hateful, gloomy.]
A river of the lower world or Hades, over which the shades of the departed were ferried by Charon, and by which the gods swore their most solemn oaths.
1390Gower Conf. II. 164 Be Segne and Stige he swor also, That ben the depe Pettes tuo Of helle the most principal. 1560T. H. tr. Ovid's Fable Narcissus A iiij b, And when he was receyued, into that hyllye [read hellye] place be [read he] yeke wythin the ogly stype [read Styxe], behelde hys wretched face. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 88 Why suffer'st thou thy Sonnes vnburied yet, To houer on the dreadfull shore of Stix? 1602Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. 150 By Styx I vowe..Venus would be Vulcans, and he knowes I truely sware. 1614Ralegh Hist. World v. iv. §8. 613 There is not any forme of oath, whereby such articles of peace can bee held inuiolable, saue onely by the water of Styx, that is, by Necessitie. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. 5 That foul lore..and quill Steep'd in sad Styx, and fed with stinking gore. 1679T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 27, I have observed it matter of Fact where such care hath been omitted, more lives then else⁓where have flooded into Styx. 1797Burke Lett. Regicide Peace iii. Wks. (1808) VIII. 280 This would be a never-failing source of true glory, if springing from just and right; but it is truly dreadful if it be an arm of Styx, which springs out of the profoundest depths of a poisoned soil. 1819‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 197 To pass o'er Bot'ny Bays dread styx. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. ix, He told a falsehood as black as Styx. |