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By the by, Greta, or rather Grieta, is exactly the Cocytus of the Greeks; the word, literally rendered in modern English, is, "The loud Lamenter;" to griet, in the
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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His griet 'was fo increafcd by the ill fucccfs of thofc whom he difpatchcd in the purCuit, that tliey could hardly cfcapc his anger, though he rcmcmbrcd that he had fent thetn too late, and that though they had held the fame courfe which tlic enemy kept, he had given thciu too much time to be overtaken.
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