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Brewer's: Acheron
Ac′heron
The “River of Sorrows” (Greek, achos roös); one of the five rivers of the infernal regions.
“Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep.”
—
: Paradise Lost, ii. 578. Milton
Pabulum Acherontis
Food for the churchyard; said of a dead body.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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