pyriphlegethon

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The Greeks believed that Hades was beneath the earth. It had five rivers—the Acheron, the Kokytos, the Lethe, the Pyriphlegethon, and the Styx. Each served as a boundary between the land of the living and the land of the dead."

Learned borrowing from Latin Pyriphlegethōn, from Ancient Greek Πυριφλεγέθων (Puriphlegéthōn).

the Pyriphlegethon (canonical)

Phlegethon

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