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  • And this is the river which they call Pyriphlegethon, whose burning streams emit dissevered fragments in whatever part of the earth they happen to be.

    Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates 427? BC-347? BC Plato

  • Plato, according to which hot springs, as well as all volcanic igneous streams, were eruptions that might be traced back to one generally distributed subterranean cause, 'Pyriphlegethon'.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • But after they have fallen, and have been there for a year, the wave casts them forth, the homicides into Cocytus, but the parricides and matricides into Pyriphlegethon.

    Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates 427? BC-347? BC Plato

  • Pyriphlegethon; but when, being borne along, they arrive at the

    Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

  • Pyriphlegethon, the river that burns with fire; Acheron, the river of woe; and the Styx, another river of the lower world, the river of hatred.

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • This river, having fallen in here, and received awful power in the water, sinking beneath the earth, proceeds, folding itself round, in an opposite course to Pyriphlegethon, and meets it in the Acherusian lake from, a contrary direction.

    Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates 427? BC-347? BC Plato

  • Hell's kitchen on baking-day, and so reached the Exe only to curse vainly and to shriek idle imprecations at us, who were as immune from their anger as though the severing river had been Pyriphlegethon.

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • And the water of this river too mingles with no other, but flows round in a circle and falls into Tartarus over against Pyriphlegethon, and the name of this river, as the poet says, is Cocytus.

    Phædo. Paras. 600-624 Plato 1909

  • This is that Pyriphlegethon, as the stream is called, which throws up jets of fire in all sorts of places.

    Phædo. Paras. 600-624 Plato 1909

  • Thereby, into Acheron flows Pyriphlegethon, and Cocytus, a branch of the water of the Styx, and there is a rock, and the meeting of the two roaring waters.

    Book X Homer 1909

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