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Styx
(Styx)
Pronunciation:
/stɪks/
Greek Mythology
one of the nine rivers in the underworld, over which Charon ferried the souls of the dead.
Origin:
from Greek
Stux
, from
stugnos
'hateful, gloomy'
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