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(Greek mythology) A river of fire in Hades. quotations
Firebrand of hell first tynd in Phlegeton, / By thousand furies, and from thence out throwen / Into this world, to worke confusion, / And set it all on fire by force vnknowen / Is wicked discord [...].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
Consumed by the tongues ov fire / burning like Phlegethon / holy gardens reduced to ash
2009, Behemoth, Shemhamforash